The Geometry of the Universe (Series on Knots and Everything, 71)
Language: English
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2021
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- Title
- The Geometry of the Universe (Series on Knots and Everything, 71)
- Author
- Rourke Colin
- Publisher
- World Scientific Pub Co Inc
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9811233861
- ISBN 13
- 9789811233869
- Series
- Book 20 of 20: Series on Knots and Everything
Cosmology, the study of the universe, arouses a great deal of public interest, with serious articles both in the scientific press and in major newspapers, with many of the theories and concepts (e.g. the "big bang" and "black holes") discussed, often in great depth.
Accordingly the book is divided into three parts:
- Part 1: The whole story presented as far as possible for a nontechnical reader
- Part 2: The same story, told again but for a reader with some technical knowledge
- Part 3: Appendices with full technical details of several of the important topics covered.
Part 1 is readable (and understandable) by anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the basic language of cosmology: events, lights paths, galaxies, black holes and so on. It covers the whole story of the book in a way as untechnical as possible given the scope of the topics covered.
Part 2 covers the same ground again but with enough technical details to satisfy a reader with basic knowledge of mathematics and/or physics.
Part 3 consists of appendices which are referred to in the other parts and which also contain the highly technical material omitted from Section 2.
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About the Author
Colin Rourke is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Warwick, and has also taught at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Queen Mary College London, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Open University, where he masterminded rewriting the pure mathematics course; he has recently retired from lecturing after completing a half-century (of 50 years of lecturing). He has written papers in high-dimensional PL topology, low-dimensional topology, combinatorial group theory and differential topology.
In 2000 he started taking an interest in cosmology and published his first substantial foray on the ArXiv preprint server in 2003. For the past twelve years he has collaborated with Robert MacKay also of Warwick University with papers on redshift, gamma ray bursts and natural observer fields. He now feels that he has mastered the basis of a completely new geometrical way of understanding the universe, without either dark matter or a big bang. It is this that is presented in this book.
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