cosmology textbooks

[Boud Roukema]

<cross-post shape-univ, cosmo-torun, cfalib>

Cze¶æ wszystkim,
   Printed books are expensive and slow to get, but it *is* more
fun to read a book than to learn everything online. So as more people
get interested in cosmology at the TCfA it would probably be good
to have some more copies of the 1990s generation of basic cosmology
texts; and, say, half-a-dozen copies of Numerical Recipes (unless
someone knows of a better book than NumRec, since there *are* some
criticisms of the subroutines which do "complicated" things like
differential equations etc., but in my experience the simplest
routines seem to be perfectly OK).

Karolina: would you please be able to find out
* the cost and approximate delay in shipping for the following:

Peebles 1993
Liddle
Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics
Padmanabhan   Structure formation in the Universe
Padmanabhan   Cosmology and Astrophysics - through Problems
Padmanabhan   Course of Theoretical Astrophysics -
                  Volume III: Galaxies and Cosmology (in press)
Numerical Recipes

* It would also be good to find out what po polsku translations of
cosmology introductory texts exist and how much they cost (I guess
most are from Prószyñski, translated by CAMK-Warszawa people ;)


Everyone: to me it makes most sense to have the library manage copies
of these (though I know that I'd like to have some personal copies).

I'm not sure how we should decide how many copies to get, and of which
we should get copies. (Except for Numerical Recipes: I think that
3-4 copies would be reasonable.)

The advantage of getting several copies of the same book is that
different students would be able to work with the same language,
symbol, etc. conventions and content; but the advantage of having just
one or two copies of each of several *different* books is that the
material is somewhat different (some of the above say nothing at all
about the topology of the Universe; a few may say a little...) and so
the collective knowledge of students will be better than if, e.g.,
just one textbook is available.

I think that part of the decision should come from the experience of
students - how useful do they find the books, which have the English
which is easiest to understand, which do they prefer generally?

But it should also come from people as they start doing *research*
in cosmology - which texts are the more useful ones?

There's no hurry, but these are things to think about.

Pozdrawiam,
Boud

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Details with URLs:

Just start from
http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/  and go to library and you'll find the
catalogue search here:
http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl

Peebles 1993 - 1 copy po angielsku TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4467-1022250705&pp=1&qt=F&pm=b&lok=all&pubyear=&pubrel=&liczba=5&bib=UMK&st1=ae%5Fza196960a2d0%10%09Peebles%20Phillip%20James%20Edwin&di=aPeebles%2C%20Phillip%20James%20Edwin%2E

Liddle - 1 copy po angielsku  TCfA
2 copies po polsku - 1 TCfA, 1 biblio g³ówna UMK

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4308-1022250625&pp=1&qt=F&pm=b&lok=all&pubyear=&pubrel=&liczba=5&bib=UMK&st1=ae%5Fza939614a2d0%10%09Liddle%20Andrew%20R&di=aLiddle%2C%20Andrew%20R%2E

Peacock, John A. "Cosmological physics" - 1 copy po angielsku  TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4553-1022250731&dist=0&lok=all&liczba=5&pubyear=&pubrel=&bib=UMK&pp=1&qt=F&si=2&pm=f&st1=ae%5Fza601327a2d0%10%09Peacock%20John%20A&di=aPeacock%2C%20John%20A%2E


Padmanabhan, Thanu
no copy at UMK!
http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~paddy/books/books.htm

Karolina, if there's difficulty getting the info, you could email
Paddy at his admin address: <nabhan at iucaa.ernet.in>


Silk, Joseph
no copy at UMK!
Karolina: could you find out the title(s) of Joe's recent general books
on cosmology? Chances are he's probably written a dozen in the last five
years ;), and I know for sure there's at least one with a title like
"Cosmology".


Numerical Recipes
1 copy in TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&pp=1&qt=F&pm=b&lok=all&pubyear=&pubrel=&liczba=5&bib=UMK&st1=te%5Fzb298608%10%09Numerical%20receipes%20in%20C%20the%20art%20of%20scientific%20computing&di=tNumerical%20receipes%20in%20C%20%3A%20the%20art%20of%20scientific%20computing%20%2F

2 copies in Chemistry

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&dist=0&lok=all&liczba=5&pubyear=&pubrel=&bib=UMK&pp=1&qt=F&si=1&pm=f&st1=ttnumerical%20recipes&di=tnumerical%20recipes

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&dist=0&lok=all&liczba=5&pubyear=&pubrel=&bib=UMK&pp=2&qt=F&si=1&pm=f&st1=ttnumerical%20recipes&di=tnumerical%20recipes

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