Texas/ Eso-Cern Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics

by John D. Barrow, Leon Mestel, Peter Thomas

This volume begins with 21 articles on the major topics, recent developments and new results in astrophysics and relativity, and features a paper on "The Beginning of the Universe" by S.W. Hawking. In addition, there are symposia on particle astronomy, on neutron stars and black hole astrophysics, and on large-scale structure and galaxy formation. This volume is the result of proceedings of a conference sponsored by the University of Texas at Dallas, ESO and CERN, held in December, 1990. It contains 84 papers.

840 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

John D. Barrow was a professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was awarded the 2006 Templeton Prize for "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities" for his "writings about the relationship between life and the universe, and the nature of human understanding [which] have created new perspectives on questions of ultimate concern to science and religion".

He was a member of a United Reformed Church, which he described as teaching "a traditional deistic picture of the universe".