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Title: The Cosmological Background Radiation by Marc Lachieze-Rey, Edgard Gunzig, John Simmons ISBN: 0-521-57437-4 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 10 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Good for reading without second intentions
Comment: When I saw this book in the shelves of a bookstore, I thought I should buy it immediately. But now I've finished its reading, I think I've should known better. It is a book at an introductory level, and this is said in the back cover, where it is also said that "the authors (...) avoid rigorous mathematical proofs and manipulations, preferring instead to concentrate on the information needed by hands-on cosmologists and astrophysicists." But they did not need, for example, to avoid giving explicitly the references from where they took the formulas they throw in the pages of the book. The lack of a really good bibliography at the end of the book is another problem, but not so big as the presence of several typographical mistakes, including errors in the formulas. However, to be fair this book can be useful to someone interested in learning something about the cosmological background radiation (CMB), probably not as a start for a serious study, but more as a light text showing some of the ideas behind the study of the CMB. For those in need of something more adequate for work on the subject, I suggest one review available on the web (xxx.lanl.gov), astro-ph 9904108, by Kamionkowski, M. and Kosowsky, A., with 423 references. And for those in search of a good textbook on the subject I ask them to tell me if they find it.