The day without yesterday : Lemaître, Einstein, and the birth of modern cosmology /
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| Author / Creator: | Farrell, John, 1961- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005. |
| Description: | viii, 262 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7486734 |
Table of Contents:
- Solvay
- Out of the trenches
- A universe that evolves: the history of an idea
- From Cambridge to Cambridge
- Expansion is discovered
- The primeval atom
- The cosmic microwave background
- Lean years
- The return of Lemaître's constant
- Seeing through the singularity
- Cathedrals in space
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
