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Readings

Required Textbooks

Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. 2nd updated ed. New York: Basic Books, 1993. ISBN: 0465024378. (Paperback)

Ryden, Barbara. Introduction to Cosmology. New York: Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN: 0805389121.

Recommended Books

Carrigan, R. A., Jr., and W. P. Trower, eds. Particle Physics in the Cosmos: A collection of readings from Scientific American magazine. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989. ISBN: 0716719193.

Guth, Alan H. The Inflationary Universe. New York: Perseus Books, 1997. ISBN: 0201149427.

Rowan-Robinson, Michael. Cosmology. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN: 0198518846. (Paperback)

Silk, Joseph. The Big Bang. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 2001. ISBN: 0716738783.

More Advanced Reading

There are some excellent graduate-level textbooks on cosmology that you might want to look at. These books are well beyond the level of this course, but I mention them in case any of you become interested in pursuing some topic at a more advanced level. The first two are written from the astrophysical point of view, while the last four describe the early universe from the particle physicists' slant:

Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0521422701. (Paperback)

Peebles, P. J. E. Principles of Physical Cosmology. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0691019339. (Paperback)

Dodelson, Scott. Modern Cosmology. Amsterdam, Boston: Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 0122191412.

Kolb, Edward W., and Michael S. Turner. The Early Universe. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990. ISBN: 0201116030.

Linde, Andrei. Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. ISBN: 3718604906. (Paperback)

Abbott, Laurence F. Inflationary Cosmology. Edited by Laurence F. Abbott and So-Young Pi. Singapore, Philadelphia: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1986. ISBN: 9971978652. (Paperback) (This is a reprint book of published technical articles.)