Title: Excellent introduction to a fascinating subject
Product review: What are the mathematical and observational nuts and bolts about the structure of the universe? The book by Dr Ryden is an excellent place to start. The mathematics is accessible to someone with the equivalent of first year college math. The presentation is logical, helpful, and engaging. The subject matter itself is impressive, because researchers are able to state or hypothesize generalities about the universe as a whole, and about distant and seemingly inaccessible objects, objects that are of enormous size across vast parts of space. Science's incremental advances in knowledge about the universe, embedded in the text, are impressive.Because it is so well explained, this text would be suitable for self study. Another excellent text, at a similar level, is by Andrew Liddle. More advanced are the texts by Steven Weinberg (Cosmology), Dodelson, Peacock (Cosmological Physics) and Coles and Lucchin.
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