Cosmology. 2nd edition. Weinberg S.

The monumental monument to the Nobel laureate Stephen Weinberg summarizes the results of the progress achieved over the past two decades in modern cosmology. It is unique in terms of material coverage, manner of its presentation and thoroughness of mathematical study. The purpose of the book is to give a closed description of cosmology, as well as ideas and formulas that are used and checked in modern cosmological observations. For the first time, such a comprehensive material on the current state of theory was collected within the framework of one book. "Cosmology" can be organically divided into two parts. The first four chapters are devoted mainly to the consideration of the average isotropic and homogeneous universe. They analyze such fundamental blocks as the evolution of the Universe until the formation of galaxies, relict radiation, the early universe, the inflation period, etc. The second part of the book (Chapter 5-10) is devoted to the analysis of various deviations of the Universe from the average state. Here, general formalism and its use to the evolution of heterogeneousness are presented, anisotropy of relict radiation, large -scale structure, gravitational lenses, etc. is analyzed. The book not only reports the results obtained by numerical calculations, but emphasizes the analytical description of cosmological phenomena, which allows to penetrate into their essence. The “Cosmology” describes in detail many of the most daring modern ideas that are rarely found in cosmology reviews and for the study of which you need to immerse themselves in special articles. The monograph also presents relevant measurements of cosmological parameters in order to give the reader an idea of ​​the successes of observant science. In the applications, the technical material necessary for understanding the main text of the book is collected, a dictionary of designations is presented and a selection of interesting tasks is given. The monograph contains "a magnificent exhaustive list of literature with links to original articles. The book is distinguished by a wonderful style and attention to the reader, which entails an honeness of formulations and clarity of presentation. She will certainly be interesting to all researchers engaged in cosmology, both experimenters and theorists, as well as physicists specializing in the study of elementary particles.