Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro
The up-to-date contributions in this book are based on the lecture notes of the 33rd Saas–Fee Advanced Course of the Swiss ...
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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 ...
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Groups of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe
In the cosmological context, groups trace large-scale structures better than clusters, and the evolution of groups and clusters ...
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High Time Resolution Astrophysics
High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window to the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range ...
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV
This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
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Ice, Rock, and Beauty : A Visual Tour of the New Solar System
Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance ...
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Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy
Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
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In Search of Dark Matter
The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science. ...
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Inflationary Cosmology
Some 25 years after the birth of inflationary cosmology this volume sets out to provide a both authoritative and pedagogical ...
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Its ONLY Rocket Science : An Introduction in Plain English
"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...
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La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs = The correspondence between Henri Poincaré and physicists, chemists and engineers
Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science
An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...
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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 ...
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Logic in Reality
This book is at the interface of logic, philosophy and science. It is intended for readers with interest and/or current involvement ...
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Logica Universalis
The book signifies the arrival of a new renaissance in logic, a new revival not only of logic, but of the vision of logic ...
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Mathematical Theory of Feynman Path Integrals : An Introduction
Feynman path integrals, suggested heuristically by Feynman in the 40s, have become the basis of much of contemporary physics, ...
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Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats
This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...
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Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005
Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...
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Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...
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Neutron Stars 1
The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...
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