George Ellis, FRS, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time.
Part I. Foundations: 1. The nature of cosmology
2. Geometry
3. Classical physics and gravity
Part II. Relativistic Cosmological Models: 4. Kinematics of cosmological models
5. Matter in the Universe
6. Dynamics of cosmological models
7. Observations in cosmological models
8. Light-cone approach to relativistic cosmology
Part III. The Standard Model and Extensions: 9. Homogeneous FLRW universes
10. Perturbations of FLRW universes
11. The cosmic background radiation
12. Structure formation and gravitational lensing
13. Confronting the Standard Model with observations
14. Acceleration from dark energy or modified gravity
15. 'Acceleration' from large scale inhomogeneity?
16. 'Acceleration' from small scale inhomogeneity?
Part IV. Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Models: 17. The space of cosmological models
18. Spatially homogeneous anisotropic models
19. Inhomogeneous models
Part V. Broader Perspective: 20. Quantum gravity and the start of the Universe
21. Cosmology in a larger setting
22. Conclusion: our picture of the Universe
Appendix
References
Index.
