1: The Expansion of the Universe
2: The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
3: The Early Universe
4: Inflation
5: General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
6: Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
7: Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky
8: The Growth of Structure
9: Gravitational Lensing
10: Fluctuations from Inflation
Appendices
A: Some Useful Numbers
B: Review of General Relativity
C: Energy Transfer Between Radiation and Electrons
D: The Ergodic Theorem
E: Gaussian Distributions
F: Newtonian Cosmology
G: Photon Polarization
H: The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation
Notation
Glossary of Symbols
Assorted Problems
Professor Steven Weinberg
Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental
Professor and Director, Theory Research Group
Department of Physics
University of Texas at Austin
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
National Medal of Science, 1991
Benjamin Franklin Prize, American Philosophical Society, 2004
Member, U. S. National Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy
Member, American Philosophical Society
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize, 1973
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977 Earned
degrees
A.B., Cornell University, 1954
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1957
Honorary degrees
Harvard University, A.M., 1973
Knox College, D.Sc., 1978
University of Chicago, Sc.D., 1978
University of Rochester, Sc.D., l979
Yale University, Sc.D., 1979
City University of New York,Sc.D., 1980
Clark University, Sc.D., 1982
Dartmouth College, Sc.D., 1984
Weizmann Institute, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1985
Washington College, D.Litt., 1985
Columbia University, Sc.D., 1990
University of Salamanca, Sc.D., 1992
University of Padua, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1992
University of Barcelona, Sc.D., 1996
Bates College, Sc. D., 2002
McGill University, Sc. D., 2003
University of Waterloo, Sc. D., 2004
Steven Weinberg's "Cosmology" is a thorough, graduate-level introduction to the field, which incorporates the frenzied developments since his 1972 classic, "Gravitation and Cosmology". This is sure to be another hit.
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