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Galaxy Formation

By Malcolm S. Longair

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
3540734775, 9783540734772
ISSN
0941-7834
LCC
QB981 .L846 2008
Open Library ID
OL19998461M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14774322 bytes)
Series
Astronomy and astrophysics library
Edition
2nd ed
Pages
960\960
Library
torrents.ru tech
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, this long awaited second edition of Malcolm Longairs highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated.It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems – how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called «classical cosmology». Moreover he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with unique and direct information about the physics of the very early Universe.The material is presented in an informal pedagogical manner. This includes a comprehensive introduction to relativistic astrophysics needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.

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