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A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

The reviews presented in this volume cover a wide-range of cluster of galaxies topics like the physics of the ICM gas, the ...

An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation

The geometric interpretation of gravitation is one of the major foundations of modern theoretical physics. This primer introduces ...

Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars

In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. ...

First Light in the Universe : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe, from the so-called Dark Ages to cosmic reionisation, ...

Galaxy Formation

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the ...

Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe : An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special ...

Interactions

This is an outstanding collection of original essays. All of them concern the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics ...

Introduction to Relativistic Continuum Mechanics

This mathematically-oriented introduction takes the point of view that students should become familiar, at an early stage, ...

La musica del Big Bang : Come la radiazione cosmica di fondo ci ha svelato i segreti dell’Universo = The music of the Big Bang: How the cosmic background radiation revealed the secrets of the Universe to us

Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...

Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control : Exploration of Relativistic Gravity in Space

Over the next decade the gravitational physics community will benefit from dramatic improvements in many technologies critical ...

Quantum Riemannian Geometry

This book provides a comprehensive account of a modern generalisation of differential geometry in which coordinates need ...

Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array : A New Era for Astrophysics

This book describes the enormous capabilities of ALMA, the state of the project, and most notably the scientific prospects ...

State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events

Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...

String Theory and Fundamental Interactions : Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

This volume, dedicated to Prof. Gabriele Veneziano on the occasion of his retirement from CERN, starts as a broad historico-scientific ...

Supersymmetric Mechanics - Vol. 3 : Attractors and Black Holes in Supersymmetric Gravity

This is the third volume in a series of books on the general topics of Supersymmetric Mechanics, with the first and second ...

The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology

Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...

Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles : A Threat to the Equivalence Principle

There has been a long debate about whether uniformly accelerated charges should radiate electromagnetic energy and how one ...

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