Bernard J. T. Jones.
Precision Cosmology: the first half million years.
CUP. 2017
Cosmology seeks to characterise our Universe in terms of models
based on well-understood and tested physics.
Today we know our Universe with a precision that once would have been unthinkable.
This book develops the entire mathematical, physical and statistical framework within which this has been achieved.
It tells the story of how we arrive at our profound conclusions, starting from the early 20th century and following developments up to the latest data analysis of big astronomical datasets. It provides an enlightening description of the mathematical, physical and statistical basis for understanding and interpreting the results of key space-based and ground-based data. Subjects covered include general relativity, cosmological models, the inhomogeneous Universe, physics of the cosmic background radiation, and methods and results of data analysis.
