This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, and
university students) through central questions of Practical
Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the
modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best
describing the universe of galaxies, its geometry, size, age, and
matter composition. The authors draw on their personal experience
in astrophysics and cosmology to explain key concepts of cosmology,
both observational and theoretical, and to highlight several items
which give cosmology its special character. These highlighted items
are: Ideosyncratic features of the cosmic laboratory, Malmquist
bias in the determination of cosmic distances, Theory of
gravitation as a cornerstone of cosmological models, Crucial tests
for checking the reality of space expansion, Methods of analyzing
the structures of the universe as mapped by galaxies, Usefulness of
fractals as a model to describe the large-scale structure and new
cosmological physics inherent in the Friedmann world model."
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