Theoretical & mathematical astronomy books

1206 books were found.

Astrophysics Update 2

Astrophysics Update 2

Author: John Mason
ISBN: 9783642067785
Format: Paperback
$446.16

""Astrophysics Updates"" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate...  Read More >>

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy: Proceedings of an ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18-21 November 2003

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy:...

Author: Hans Ulrich Käufl ,  R. Siebenmorgen
ISBN: 9783642064401
Format: Paperback
$237.47

Two specialized new instruments for ESO's VLT, VISIR and CRIRES, spawned the idea for this workshop. The papers...  Read More >>

Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens

Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the...

Author: Claudio Maccone
ISBN: 9783642092022
Format: Paperback
$366.96

This book provides the reader with an insight into the science and technology of interstellar spaceflight. It also...  Read More >>

Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies

Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies

Author: Keiichi Wada ,  Francoise Combes
ISBN: 9781441924957
Format: Paperback
$488.40

In our quest to elucidate the origin of the universe and the formation of galaxies, particularly that of the Milky...  Read More >>

The Road to Galaxy Formation

The Road to Galaxy Formation

Author: William C. Keel
ISBN: 9783642091575
Format: Paperback
$287.76

This book discusses the beginnings of the process of galaxy formation from cosmological observations and calculations....  Read More >>

Calibrating the Cosmos: How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe

Calibrating the Cosmos: How Cosmology Explains Our Big...

Author: Frank Levin
ISBN: 9781441921529
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This book explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting...  Read More >>

Space Tourism: Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond

Space Tourism: Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond...

Author: Michel van Pelt
ISBN: 9781441923141
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Space tourism is not science fiction anymore, this title tells us, but merely a logical step in the evolution of...  Read More >>

The Invisible Universe: The Story of Radio Astronomy

The Invisible Universe: The Story of Radio Astronomy...

Author: Gerrit Verschuur
ISBN: 9781441921567
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Hidden from human view, accessible only to sensitive receivers attached to huge radio telescopes, giant versions...  Read More >>

Axions: Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches

Axions: Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches...

Author: Markus Kuster ,  Georg Raffelt
ISBN: 9783642092633
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at...  Read More >>

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation...

Author: Ian S. McLean
ISBN: 9783642095320
Format: Paperback
$184.77

The new edition of this comprehensive reference on astronomy observation methods and techniques includes recent...  Read More >>

Marxism and Education beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling

Marxism and Education beyond Identity: Sexuality and...

Author: F. Agostinone-Wilson
ISBN: 9781349379767
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism: Deconstructing the Oral Eye

Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism:...

Author: jan jagodzinski
ISBN: 9780230618794
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the...  Read More >>

Synergies between Solar and Stellar Modelling

Synergies between Solar and Stellar Modelling

Author: Maria Pia Di Mauro ,  Daniela Cardini
ISBN: 9789048191970
Format: Hardback
$683.76

This work is intended to give a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in solar and stellar modelling....  Read More >>

Solar, Stellar and Galactic Connections between Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Solar, Stellar and Galactic Connections between Particle...

Author: Alberto Carramiñana ,  Francisco Siddharta Guzmán Murillo
ISBN: 9789048173990
Format: Paperback
$448.77

During the IV Escuela Mexicana de Astrof´ ?sica (EMA-2005), held in the beautiful colonial city of Morelia between...  Read More >>

Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 33

Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro: Saas-Fee...

Author: Peter Schneider ,  Georges Meylan
ISBN: 9783642067778
Format: Paperback
$316.77

A year later, Fritz Zwicky pointed out that galaxies would act as lenses much more likely than stars, and also gave...  Read More >>

Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental Carbon

Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental...

Author: Frans J.M. Rietmeijer
ISBN: 9789048170548
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Observational, experimental and analytical data show that C60, larger fullerenes, and related structures of elemental...  Read More >>

Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004

Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context:...

Author: Andrea Merloni ,  Sergei V. Nayakshin
ISBN: 9783642064470
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Suitable for...  Read More >>

Quantum Gravitation: The Feynman Path Integral Approach

Quantum Gravitation: The Feynman Path Integral Approach...

Author: Herbert W. Hamber
ISBN: 9783642099007
Format: Paperback
$287.76

This self-contained yet comprehensive book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman...  Read More >>

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and...

Author: Rafael Ferraro
ISBN: 9781441924193
Format: Paperback
$261.36

These classical notions of space and time are also the foundations of Newtonian mechanics, which dominated Physics...  Read More >>

Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe: An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology

Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe: An...

Author: Tai L. Chow
ISBN: 9781441925251
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Deftly employing his inimitable writing style, respected American academic Professor Tai Chow tells us the story...  Read More >>

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity's Cosmic Context

Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone: Uncovering Humanity's...

Author: Kevin Nolan
ISBN: 9781441922304
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Built on our legacy of Mars exploration from the Viking era and before, a far-reaching, phased, program of robotic...  Read More >>

The Universe of Fluctuations: The Architecture of Spacetime and the Universe

The Universe of Fluctuations: The Architecture of Spacetime...

Author: B. G. Sidharth
ISBN: 9789048169658
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Proposes solutions to the impasse and crisis facing fundamental physics and cosmology. This work describes a cosmological...  Read More >>

A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists...

Author: B. G. Sidharth
ISBN: 9789048171149
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures...  Read More >>

Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective Plasma Processes: First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics held at the Kodaikanal Observatory, India, August 27 - September 7, 2007

Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective...

Author: S.S. Hasan ,  R. Gangadhara
ISBN: 9789048180110
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Quantum Plasmas, pair plasmas and pair-ion plasmas exist under extreme conditions in planetary interiors and exotic...  Read More >>

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