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Brief History of the Cosmology and Gravity Group (CGG) W de Sitter, one of the key ?gures in early theoretical cosmology worked at the SA observatory at the turn of the last century Lemaitres visited Cape Town in 1952 on the occasion of a British Association meeting Substantial research work on Cosmology only began at UCT in
a selection of recommended cosmology books, at the popular, intermediate, and advanced levels Many people (too many to name individually) helped in the making of this book; I thank them all I owe particular thanks to the students who took my undergraduate cosmology course at Ohio State University Their
Cosmology I How to measure distances I Death of Stars I Hubble Flow I Big Bang & CMB Unit: light-year (ly) Distance light travels in 1 year I 1 foot: 1 light-nanosecond I Earth-Sun: 8 light-minutes I Oort Cloud: 1:6 light-years I Milky Way: 100;000 light-years I Observable Universe: 93 billion ly
This is an introductory course on cosmology aimed at mathematics undergraduates at the University of Cambridge You will need to be comfortable with the basics of Special Relativity, but no prior knowledge of either General Relativity or Statistical Mechanics is assumed In particular, the minimal amount of statistical mechanics will
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