This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and
comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas
that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It
divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for
a one-semester graduate course. The first part deals chiefly with
the isotropic and homogeneous average universe; the second part
concentrates on the departures from the average universe.
Throughout the book the author presents detailed analytic
calculations of cosmological phenomena, rather than just report
results obtained elsewhere by numerical computation. The book is up
to date, and gives detailed accounts of topics such as
recombination, microwave background polarization, leptogenesis,
gravitational lensing, structure formation, and multifield
inflation, that are usually treated superficially if at all in
treatises on cosmology. Copious references to current research
literature are supplied. Appendices include a brief introduction to
general relativity, and a detailed derivation of the Boltzmann
equation for photons and neutrinos used in calculations of
cosmological evolution. Also provided is an assortment of problems.
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