Modern Cosmology 1st Edition by Scott Dodelson (PDF)

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Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their generation by primordial inflation, and their observational consequences. These consequences include the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) featuring acoustic peaks and polarization, the matter power spectrum with baryonic wiggles, and their detection via photometric galaxy surveys, redshift distortions, cluster abundances, and weak lensing. The book concludes with a long chapter on data analysis.Modern Cosmology is the first book to explain in detail the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB, the E/B decomposition in polarization which may allow for detection of primordial gravity waves, and the modern analysis techniques used on increasingly large cosmological data sets. Readers will gain the tools needed to work in cosmology and learn how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our picture of the universe.Provides foundations, calculations, and interpretations which illuminate current thinking in cosmologyCovers the major advances in cosmology over the past decadeIncludes over 100 unique, pedagogical figures

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⭐The editorial review by Professor Efstathiou (below) is a very concise description of what this book is:”Dodelson writes well and the mathematical derivations are generally well laid out and easy to follow. Useful sets of exercises appear at the end of each chapter, along with suggestions for further reading, often with amusing commentaries. New graduate students, Dodelson’s intended audience should find it easy to learn from this book.”-George Efstathiou, University of Cambride, England (July 2004)What I might add is that, if you have a physics background and are interested in picking up cosmology as an “enthusiast” (not necessarily a graduate student in the field), this book is quite approachable and, as noted above, actually fun to read. Professor Dodelson’s book is indeed an advanced textbook, and if you take the time to read it through carefully (and perhaps more than once!) and do a fair fraction of the problems, you will have a solid background to approach the research literature. But, it also is as much fun to read as the popularizations and less advanced books. Balancing the rigor of the math and physics with the sheer sense of joy and discovery is not an easy thing to do, but Professor Dodelson has done it. This is what textbooks should aspire to!

⭐There are a lot of books being written on this subject these days and most are not worth the paper. Scott Dodelson’s book is like finding the needle in that haystack. It is clear, consise, concentrated and complete. He doesn’t waste any time on stuff that’s not relevant, overly speculative and theoreticlly questionable. Nevertheless, he keeps the reader aware of the issues that are still controversial without getting lost in idyl speculation. Mr Dodelson has carved a wide swath through the jungle of cosmology from which the reader can see both fine points and vistas of mankind’s progress toward understanding where we came from and why. He is not afraid of expressing himself most articulately even if it means resorting to math and graphs. Don’t be put off. Someone who understands the field and the individual subjects as thoroughly as Mr. Dodelson can actually make even the math seem easy; that is, more like artistic illustrations than the convoluted, sometimes confusing, complexity one expects in advanced treatments of serious physics. This facility is a definite plus for those of us who’s math skills are relatively rudimentary or rusty, but are endlessly facinated by the subject. The pages are rich and thick with insight. Scott is never aloof or remote, he’s right at your elbow, infusing your enthusiasm with his. In this book he takes you on a personal guided tour of some of the most exciting and interesting ideas that the human mind can embrace.

⭐I am reading this book after reading an intro on Cosmology in Choudhuri’s, Peng’s, and Bohmer’s books in Astrophysics and GR. I would not say this book is for advanced undergrads, unless an undergrad has had exposure to GR and tensor analysis prior to reading this book. This is a first-year, grad-level text assuming you have had some exposure to cosmology and GR at the undergrad level. If not, it will definitely be a uphill run all the way for a student unfamiliar with this topic. Highly recommended for the grad student in physics or astronomy, but would not recommend for undergrad students. Ryden’s book on Cosmology may be a better choice for undergrads instead of this book.

⭐I read the first few chapters. It is not a pedagogical book to learn cosmology. It summarizes the cosmological knowledge circa 1993, and it requires a solid background in Einstein general theory of relativity in order to understand and appreciate the content. Chapter 3 summarizes general relativity and how it is used to understand the cosmological data. It is best used as a comprehensive reference of cosmological data and knowledge.

⭐I ordered this book after hearing Dodelson give a very interesting lecture on related material and was not disappointed. The writing is clean and clear. He finds creative and intuitively approachable methods of introducing difficult concepts. Each chapter ends with a nice summary of concepts along with a substantial set of helpful exercises well designed to enhance understanding. I like the conceptual style of the book, which begins with broad issues then returns to smaller details. He presents the big picture with a broad brush, eluding to important details as needed that will be addressed later. I find this a very effective way to build intuition about any topic, and certainly about this rather complex and dynamic topic. An excellent read for someone wanting to get up to speed quickly on the topic.

⭐I picked up Dodelson’s book for a graduate cosmology course as a supplement to Weinberg- I found it to be very readable, and the exercises helped in getting a firmer grip on the concepts. All in all, a nice sidekick to have and add to your physics/astronomy literature collection.

⭐Great Book. But not for the beginners. You should have knowledge in differential geometry, Some statistical mechanics and GR. Nice great book to learn anisotropy in CMB. It is kind of brief. I recommend that any one who is really into this subject should go through all the derivation by them self following the book.

⭐One of the best “text-books” out there, and for sure an excellent text for Cosmology and Particle astrophysics. A must for all students in Physics / Astronomy. I should add, even as an experimentalist, I go back to this book very regularly.

⭐Calculations presented in the book are very through, especially in the part devoted to cosmological perturbation theory. This is particularly useful if you are new to the subject and do not mind getting insight on the topic through the math. All the topics have a good balance between conciseness and clarity. A particular emphasis is given to Cosmic Microwave Background related topics with detailed calculation of temperature anisotropies physics. I think it’s a must have for people approaching this field. Good reference from the literature are also provided. The CMB data analysis chapter is very useful to grasp the high level of statistical data analysis tools that CMB community has developed over the years.

⭐This is a good text for graduate level cosmology. Sadly, the kindle edition is very bad: equations and non-latin characters are digitized either as badly-scaled images, or using some kind of text-recognition that occasionally gets things completely wrong, or a monstrous combination of the two. For parts that e.g. use GR, where index placement is crucial, this renders much of the text useless.

⭐Me esta encantando el libro. Un buen equilibrio entre conceptos y formalismo matemático.Los ejercicios con resoluciónes al final del libro ayudan a consolidar los conceptos

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⭐Received on time. The book printing quality is fine. This a standard cosmology book.

⭐(観測的)宇宙論(cosmology)と大規模構造(large scale structure)の総論を扱っており、宇宙論の教科書として読みやすく専門的で名著です。2003年出版で比較的新しく、宇宙論を研究する学部４年生〜院生向けの標準的教科書として使われています。CMBの記述も丁寧に網羅していて、これ一冊を読めば宇宙論の基礎的概論はマスターできます。説明は詳しい方ではないかと思われます。足りない箇所は色々な文献で補えばよいかと。

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