Theoretical & mathematical astronomy books

The dawn of the first stars, galaxies and black holes signaled a fundamental milestone in our Universe’s evolution:...  Read More >>

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together with...  Read More >>

Ignacio Ferreras presents a concise introduction to extragalactic astrophysics, with emphasis on stellar dynamics,...  Read More >>

Ignacio Ferreras presents a concise introduction to extragalactic astrophysics, with emphasis on stellar dynamics,...  Read More >>

This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures,...  Read More >>

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of...  Read More >>

This book employs computer simulations of ‘artificial’ Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives...  Read More >>

This book presents a study of the saturation of unstable f-modes (fundamental modes) due to low-order nonlinear...  Read More >>

This occurs in a wide variety of ways, including magnetic stellar and orbital coupling, magnetic channelling of...  Read More >>

This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti, a well-known Indian astrophysicist,...  Read More >>

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This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo’s exceptional work, thereby revealing...  Read More >>

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This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, focused on the...  Read More >>

Astrophysical Recipes: The art of AMUSE delves into the ways in which computational science and astrophysics are...  Read More >>

In 1908, three years after Einstein first published his special theory of relativity, the mathematician Hermann...  Read More >>

Combining a student-centred approach with the reliability of a familiar and proven text, Discovering The Universe...  Read More >>

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This thesis provides new insights into the seemingly anomalous ubiquity of lithium-rich red giant stars. The theory...  Read More >>

From early Chinese astronomy to the most recent high precision, multi-wavelength observations, supernovae have been...  Read More >>

This Brief presents in a self-contained, non-technical and illustrative fashion the state-of-the-art results and...  Read More >>

This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures,...  Read More >>

This occurs in a wide variety of ways, including magnetic stellar and orbital coupling, magnetic channelling of...  Read More >>

This book presents a study of the saturation of unstable f-modes (fundamental modes) due to low-order nonlinear...  Read More >>

This book traces out the unfolding history of important discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics, and anchors our...  Read More >>