The Universe Unfolding
Published on 1. March 1998
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-851188-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of 20 lectures ranging across active areas of astronomical research. In the series, scientists, mostly British and American, and including three Nobel Laureates, present their work and perspectives on developments and trends in astrophysics during the last two decades. While they invite scrutiny by the specialist, the bulk of the material is well within the reach of a third year undergraduate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 plates, 15 halftones, 109 line drawings, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-851188-5 (9780198511885)
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Content
1: Sir Fred Hoyle: Comets: a matter of life and death. 2: R A Lyttleton: Gravitation, ancient eclipses, and mountains. 3: S Chandrasekhar: E A Milne: his part in the development of modern astrophysics. 4: Sir Martin Rees: Our universe and others. 5: T G Cowling: Astrology, religion and science. 6: A W Wolfendale: The origin of cosmic rays. 7: D G Kendall: Statistics, geometry and the cosmos. 8: D G King-Hele: The Earth's atmosphere: ideas old and new. 9: Sir William McCrea: Time, vacuum and cosmos. 10: W A Fowler: The age of the observable universe. 11: Sir Michael Atiyah: Geometry, topology and physics. 12: V Radhakrishnan: Polarization - its message in astronomy. 13: T Gold: Carbon - the element of life: what is its origin on Earth?. 14: D W Sciama: Cosmology and particle physics: a new synthesis. 15: Freeman Dyson: Hunting for comets and planets. 16: Malcolm Longair: Modern cosmology - a critical assessment. 17: J H Taylor: Binary pulsars and relativistic gravity. 18: R Kirshner: Taking the measure of the universe: How big? How old? How do we know?. 19: J C Mather: Observing the Big Bang. 20: Professor Sir Roger Penrose: The complexity of our singular universe