'This volume fills a gap between books for lay readers and books
for serious students of cosmology. An undergraduate student seeking
a big picture understanding of cosmology and an easy introduction
to the mathematics involved will find this book very useful. Each
section concludes with a helpful summary in question-answer format.
This is really useful in answering some questions and clarifying
concepts that really do get addressed properly in the running prose
format. Various lucid, simple graphs illustrate concepts throughout
the text. A particularly refreshing aspect is the authors’
respect for the reader’s intelligence: they clearly admit
where scientists still do not know the answers and at best can
speculate.'CHOICENamed an Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by
CHOICEThis book is about the history and the current state of the
art in the exciting field of cosmology — the science about the
Universe as a whole, which is guaranteed to attract the attention
of a wide range of readers. It mostly aims to explain the main
ideas of modern cosmology: the expanding Universe, its creation in
a Big Bang, its evolution, characteristics, and structure, as well
as issues — dark matter and dark energy, black holes and other
exotic objects etc. It also answers most frequently asked questions
about cosmology.How the Universe Works stands between a popular
science book and a textbook, acting as a sort of a bridge across
the great chasm separating popular science from true science. It
can be also used as an introductory textbook for undergraduate
students. It is also suitable for the non-experts in cosmology who
wish to have an overview of the current state of the field. It is
different from most popular science books because it avoids cutting
corners in explanations and contains justification for various
assumptions or estimations made in cosmology. It does not hide
problems faced by modern cosmology as well as issues the community
has no consensus about. It also does not try to pass hypotheses for
established theories, which is not uncommon in scholarly articles.
General
| Imprint: |
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
Singapore |
| Release date: |
February 2018 |
| First published: |
2018 |
| Authors: |
Serge L Parnovsky
• Aleksei S Parnowski
|
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
188 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-981-12-1444-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
981-12-1444-1 |
| Barcode: |
9789811214448 |
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