Thread: Which are the best College Books in Astronomy?

Can anyone please give me some bibliography from the best universities in the world teaching astronomy and cosmology? I don't want amateur books, I'm talking about Physics books, etc.

Thank you :wink:

We are not ignoring you, I don't think anyone here has the answer...

if you want to cloud your mind with some fabulation about what and who we are here
Einstein, Albert (July 11, 1923), "Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity", Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901–1921, Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-lecture.pdf>. Retrieved on 2007-03-25
Einstein, Albert (1950), "On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation", Scientific American CLXXXII (4): 13–17
Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities, A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, Iss. 2, pp.91-94 (1982) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.91
do you need more? bleah

Thanks.

Meanwhile I've been listening to some UCLA podcasts and I recommend them to everyone interested in academic knowledge.

You could consider Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics. To quote Wikipedia "This is perhaps Feynman's most accessible technical work and is considered a classic introduction to modern physics. It includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism, Newtonian physics, quantum physics, and even the relation of physics to other sciences."

For current and past research in astronomy I routinely scour the SOA/ADS site. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/

Thanks, I think I'm going to check out those Richard Feynman's books at my local library.

I do feel the same way about many books. Although, I have recently read a book entitled, The Starflight Handbook, a pioneer's guide to interstellar travel by Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff. This read takes you through many different aspects of space, yet at the same time sprinkles in physics equations and trajectories. This is not a straight ahead physics book though, and it may not be what your particularly looking for, but I think it's a fantastic book.

This book is probably available at your library, that's where I got mine. However I'm pretty sure this book is available on Amazon.