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'An impressively complete and beautifully illustrated overview of our current understanding of cosmology. Serjeant achieves a nice balance between the excitement of results from the forefront of research and a clear presentation of the basic tools needed to understand them.' Professor John Peacock FRS, University of Edinburgh
'This is an excellent book for graduate students in many areas of astronomy and cosmology. I am very impressed by its style, clarity of presentation and the choice of topics covered.' Professor T. Padmanabhan, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and author of Gravitation: Foundations and Frontiers
'Serjeant's book is beautiful, filled with full-color photographs and cleanly rendered plots and diagrams. … his treatment is contemporary and addresses a broad range of topics in informal, enthusiastic prose.' Physics Today
'This is an excellent book for graduate students in many areas of astronomy and cosmology. I am very impressed by its style, clarity of presentation and the choice of topics covered.' Professor T. Padmanabhan, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and author of Gravitation: Foundations and Frontiers
'Serjeant's book is beautiful, filled with full-color photographs and cleanly rendered plots and diagrams. … his treatment is contemporary and addresses a broad range of topics in informal, enthusiastic prose.' Physics Today
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Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of observational cosmology, this advanced undergraduate textbook enables students to use quantitative physical methods to understand the Universe. The textbook covers recent developments such as precision cosmology and the concordance cosmological model, inflation, gravitational lensing, the extragalactic far-infrared and X-ray backgrounds, downsizing and baryon wiggles. It also explores the future missions and facilities likely to dominate cosmological research in the future, including radio, X-ray, submillimetre-wave and gravitational wave astronomy. Each chapter contains full-colour figures, worked examples and exercises with complete solutions. Clearly identified key facts and equations help students easily locate important information. Suggestions for further reading provide jumping-off points for students aiming to further their studies. Reflecting decades of Open University experience in undergraduate teaching, this textbook brings students to the forefront of the rapidly developing field of observational cosmology. Accompanying resources to this textbook are available at: http://www.cambridge.org/features/astrophysics.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Cosmology is one of the key frontiers of knowledge today, and is currently being driven by observations from powerful new telescopes (many in space) across the electromagnetic spectrum. The author provides an outstanding and detailed introduction to the subject. This is not a popular introduction: the mathematics are all there, but so too is an approachable and witty commentary and many outstanding figures. Highly recommended.
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A comprehensive review of the methods of obtaining cosmological data. Particularly useful were the on-line reference papers. As usual with Open University texts the fully worked exercises were very useful in explaining the key points.
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This book is a good overview of the subject for graduate students, but unfortunately fails somewhat when it comes to third-year undergraduates. Although the illustrations are impressive, the captions are sometimes somewhat lacking. Another problem is that the index (and indeed the use of common terms in the main text) is far from complete. Rather a shame, since this is a failing that would have been relatively simple to correct -- NAMING all terms defined in the line before the equation that defines them!
As such, it assumes a familiarity with some of the basic terms that a graduate student could be assumed to have, but that an undergraduate may not.
The author sometimes gets a bit carried away with filling in unneeded detail. To take an example (and a field in which I work), the convolution theorem. This is dealt with in an aside, but tries to cram into less than a page a level of detail that I don't teach to 3rd-year undergraduates doing computer vision, and that takes a considerable portion of a lecture when presenting it at masters level.
As such, it assumes a familiarity with some of the basic terms that a graduate student could be assumed to have, but that an undergraduate may not.
The author sometimes gets a bit carried away with filling in unneeded detail. To take an example (and a field in which I work), the convolution theorem. This is dealt with in an aside, but tries to cram into less than a page a level of detail that I don't teach to 3rd-year undergraduates doing computer vision, and that takes a considerable portion of a lecture when presenting it at masters level.
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