Cosmology
A Very Short Introduction
$29.54
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2001
Summary
This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192854162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019285416X |
| Author: | Peter Coles |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 114mm x 179mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
There is an embarrassment of books about the universe for the general reader, but few manage to pack so much, so elegantly, into such a compact space as this does. The book is generously illustrated.'The Guardian 09/02/02/Coles takes you gently through everything from Blue Shift to parallel Universe in a thoroughly entertaining read’TNT Magazine`a pleasure to read’New Scientist, 29/09/01
Peter Coles
Peter Coles is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. He has co-written two textbooks on cosmology, and over a hundred technical articles on various aspects of the Big Bang theory. He is also author of Einstein and the Total Eclipse and Hawking and the Mind of God.
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