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Cze�� wszystkim, Printed books are expensive and slow to get, but it *is* more fun to read a book than to learn everything online. So as more people get interested in cosmology at the TCfA it would probably be good to have some more copies of the 1990s generation of basic cosmology texts; and, say, half-a-dozen copies of Numerical Recipes (unless someone knows of a better book than NumRec, since there *are* some criticisms of the subroutines which do "complicated" things like differential equations etc., but in my experience the simplest routines seem to be perfectly OK).

Karolina: would you please be able to find out * the cost and approximate delay in shipping for the following:

Peebles 1993 Liddle Peacock, John A. Cosmological Physics Padmanabhan Structure formation in the Universe Padmanabhan Cosmology and Astrophysics - through Problems Padmanabhan Course of Theoretical Astrophysics - Volume III: Galaxies and Cosmology (in press) Numerical Recipes

* It would also be good to find out what po polsku translations of cosmology introductory texts exist and how much they cost (I guess most are from Pr�szy�ski, translated by CAMK-Warszawa people ;)

Everyone: to me it makes most sense to have the library manage copies of these (though I know that I'd like to have some personal copies).

I'm not sure how we should decide how many copies to get, and of which we should get copies. (Except for Numerical Recipes: I think that 3-4 copies would be reasonable.)

The advantage of getting several copies of the same book is that different students would be able to work with the same language, symbol, etc. conventions and content; but the advantage of having just one or two copies of each of several *different* books is that the material is somewhat different (some of the above say nothing at all about the topology of the Universe; a few may say a little...) and so the collective knowledge of students will be better than if, e.g., just one textbook is available.

I think that part of the decision should come from the experience of students - how useful do they find the books, which have the English which is easiest to understand, which do they prefer generally?

But it should also come from people as they start doing *research* in cosmology - which texts are the more useful ones?

There's no hurry, but these are things to think about.

Pozdrawiam, Boud

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Just start from http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/ and go to library and you'll find the catalogue search here: http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl

Peebles 1993 - 1 copy po angielsku TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4467-1022250705&...

Liddle - 1 copy po angielsku TCfA 2 copies po polsku - 1 TCfA, 1 biblio g��wna UMK

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4308-1022250625&...

Peacock, John A. "Cosmological physics" - 1 copy po angielsku TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=4553-1022250731&...

Padmanabhan, Thanu no copy at UMK! http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~paddy/books/books.htm

Karolina, if there's difficulty getting the info, you could email Paddy at his admin address: <nabhan at iucaa.ernet.in>

Silk, Joseph no copy at UMK! Karolina: could you find out the title(s) of Joe's recent general books on cosmology? Chances are he's probably written a dozen in the last five years ;), and I know for sure there's at least one with a title like "Cosmology".

Numerical Recipes 1 copy in TCfA

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&...

2 copies in Chemistry

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&...

http://lx.bu.uni.torun.pl/cgi-bin/BG/Z2Wumk/z2w_f.pl?kl=5345-1022251291&...

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