'Like the Book of Genesis, but true. 13.8 billion years of history in 440 content-packed pages.' David Tong, Professor, University of Cambridge
Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Homogenous Universe: 2. The expanding universe; 3. The hot Big Bang; 4. Cosmological inflation; Part II. The Inhomogenous Universe: 5. Structure formation; 6. Relativistic perturbation theory; 7. Cosmic microwave background; 8. Quantum initial conditions; 9. Outlook; Appendices: Index.