A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to contemporary cosmology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a complete introduction to modern cosmology. It successfully bridges the gap between un

Originally published: Cosmology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960.

“Playful and enchanting.” —Priyamvada Natarajan, Wall Street Journal Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made?

This book mathematically derives the theory underlying the Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz conjecture on the general solution of the Einstein equations with a cos