Book
Calculating the cosmos : how mathematics unveils the universe / Ian Stewart.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465096107
- ISBN: 0465096107
- Physical Description: 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Attraction at a distance -- Collapse of the solar nebula -- Inconstant Moon -- The clockwork cosmos -- Celestial police -- The planet that swallowed its children -- Cosimo's stars -- Off on a comet -- Chaos in the cosmos -- The interplanetary superhighway -- Great balls of fire -- Great Sky River -- Alien worlds -- Dark stars -- Skeins and voids -- The cosmic egg -- The big blow-up -- The dark side -- Outside the universe. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology > Mathematics. |
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