Theoretical & Mathematical Astronomy

What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist ...

Black holes present one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity. There is strong evidence of their existence...

This book is aimed at students making the transition from a first course on general relativity to a specialized subfield. It presents a variety of ...

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes ...

This book focuses on the "Einstein Tower," an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Fi...

Written by an internationally renowned expert author and researcher, this monograph fills the need for a book conveying the sophisticated tools nee...

This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensivel...

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astr...

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astr...

This book provides an extensive survey of all the physics necessary to understand the current developments in the field of fundamental cosmology, a...

Pulsars, generally accepted to be rotating neutron stars, are dense, neutron-packed remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosio...

This interesting book provides the physical and mathematical background for a theory describing the universe as a quantum superfluid, and how dark ...

This book introduces the modern field of 3+1 numerical relativity. The book has been written in a way as to be as self-contained as possible, and o...

New Edition: Astronomical Spectroscopy (3rd Edition)Nearly all the information we know about the Universe comes from the study of light as it reach...

The problem of motion of extended bodies in General Relativity is notorious for its analytical difficulty, but at the same time highly relevant for...

Discusses the nature of interstellar matter, with a strong emphasis on basic physical principles. Summarizes the present state of knowledge about t...

A concise introduction, Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy appeals to the newcomer of astronomical spectroscopy and assumes no previous specialist k...

A concise introduction, Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy appeals to the newcomer of astronomical spectroscopy and assumes no previous specialist k...