Description: Editor's Foreword Preface to the English Edition Introduction I. The Homogenous, Isotropic Universe: Its Expansion and Geometrical Structure 1. Local Properties of the Homogeneous, Isotropic Cosmological Model 2. Relativistic Theory of the Homogenous, Isotropic Universe 3. The Propagation of Photons and Neutrinos; Obervational Methods for Testing Cosmological Theories 4. The Cosmological Constant II. Physical Processes in the Hot Universe 5. Introduction to Part II 6. Thermodynamic Equilibrium at the Beginning of the Cosmological Expansion 7. The Kinetics of Elementary-Particle Processes 8. The Radiation-Dominated Plasma and the Relic Radiation III. Gravitational Instability in Cosmology; Galaxy Formation 9. Introduction to Part III 10. Gravitational Instability in Newtonian Theory 11. Instability in the Hot Model 12. Gravitational Instability in the General Theory of Relativity 13. Statistical Theory 14. The Nonlinear Theory of Perturbations and Thermal Instability 15. Theories of Galaxy Formation 16. Research on Perturbations Using the Relic Radiation 17. Gravitational Waves in Cosmology IV. Anisotropic Cosmology 18. Introduction to Part IV 19. Very Simple Anisotropic Cosmological Models 20. Matter in an Anisotropic Cosmological Model 21. The Physics of Processes During the Early Stages of Expansion in Anisotropic Models 22. A General Analysis of Homogeneous Cosmological Models V. The Singularity and New Theoretical Developments 23. The Cosmological Singularity 24. Physical Processes Near a Singularity and Developments in the Theory of Gravitation References Author Index Subject Index

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