by Massimo Giovannini, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9789812791429 £48 ($89).
In the past 15 years, various areas of high-energy physics, astrophysics and theoretical physics have converged on the study of cosmology. Today, therefore, any graduate student in these disciplines needs a reasonably self-contained introduction to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This book presents the essential theoretical tools necessary to acquire a modern working knowledge of CMB physics. The style, falling somewhere between a monograph and a set of lecture notes, is pedagogical and the author uses the typical approach of theoretical physics to explain the main problems in detail, while also touching on the main assumptions and derivations of a fascinating subject.
