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3.0 out of 5 stars Poor layout but good material, February 27, 2004
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I own the first 2 volumes of this set that I had to get for a Graduate Astrophysics class.

In the chapters we covered relevant to Stellar Structures, I found that while these books contain pretty much everything you need to do a calculation, the material is so dense that you can pass right over an explanation.

Volume I is entirely mathematical, all relevant formulas.
Volume II is more explanation, but with references to Volume I for derivations. However the explanations can be quite dense for a grad student to absorb without reading it several times.

The Index of the book is the worst part, you cant look up anything. It would be EXTREMELY helpful if he would fix that in a new edition.

He also uses the same letter to represent different things within a chapter or subject. This gets annoying, but anyone in physics knows about this problem with any book you read. For example in the first chapter he uses 'K' to represent 5 things.

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Theoretical Astrophysics: Volume 3, Galaxies and Cosmology
Theoretical Astrophysics: Volume 3, Galaxies and Cosmology by T. Padmanabhan (Paperback - October 14, 2002)
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