Peter Coles
Autore di Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction
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Peter Coles was born in 1963. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and his doctorate from the University of Sussex. He is a professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University. His primary subject of interest is Cosmology and he has written numerous books on the mostra altro subject. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963-06-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Sussex (DPhil|Theoretical Physics|1988)
Magdalene College, Cambridge - Attività lavorative
- astrophysicist
- Organizzazioni
- Queen Mary, University of London
University of Sussex
University of Nottingham
Cardiff University
Maynooth University
Royal Astronomical Society
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Cosmology A Very Short Introduction di Peter Coles
Despite the author's engaging style, I suspect the glimmers of understanding may have just been an illusion. A glossary would have helped.
I'm one of those people who likes to know a little bit about a lot of things, so I have several Very Short Introductions that I'm gradually getting around to reading.
Despite being a book for the layman, I still felt like the maths and concepts in the book were just a little over my head, which is really what I get for trying to jump right into cosmology and the functioning of the universe without all the intermediate steps. It's also a living field with new developments all the time, so the fact that the book's over ten years old means even I knew enough to know that parts of it were out of date now, inevitably.
I know a little bit more about cosmology now than I did when I started, though, and that was all I wanted, so I'd say the book succeeded at what it set out to do.… (altro)
Despite being a book for the layman, I still felt like the maths and concepts in the book were just a little over my head, which is really what I get for trying to jump right into cosmology and the functioning of the universe without all the intermediate steps. It's also a living field with new developments all the time, so the fact that the book's over ten years old means even I knew enough to know that parts of it were out of date now, inevitably.
I know a little bit more about cosmology now than I did when I started, though, and that was all I wanted, so I'd say the book succeeded at what it set out to do.… (altro)
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A cosmologist describes, not entirely at a general reader's level, the role of probability theory in the physical sciences. He sides with Bayesians over frequentists. Inadequately copy-edited and relentlessly British.
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- ISBN
- 39
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