Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I Historical
- 1 Cosmogony Myths and Primitive Notions
- 2 First Qualitative Physics: The Newton–Bentley Exchange
- 3 Glimpses of Structure
- 4 Number Counts and Distributions
- 5 Seeds of Grand Creation
- 6 Clusters versus Correlations
- 7 The Expanding Search for Homogeneity
- Part II Descriptions of Clustering
- Part III Gravity and Correlation Functions
- Part IV Gravity and Distribution Functions
- Part V Computer Experiments for Distribution Functions
- Part VI Observations of Distribution Functions
- Part VII Future Unfoldings
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Expanding Search for Homogeneity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I Historical
- 1 Cosmogony Myths and Primitive Notions
- 2 First Qualitative Physics: The Newton–Bentley Exchange
- 3 Glimpses of Structure
- 4 Number Counts and Distributions
- 5 Seeds of Grand Creation
- 6 Clusters versus Correlations
- 7 The Expanding Search for Homogeneity
- Part II Descriptions of Clustering
- Part III Gravity and Correlation Functions
- Part IV Gravity and Distribution Functions
- Part V Computer Experiments for Distribution Functions
- Part VI Observations of Distribution Functions
- Part VII Future Unfoldings
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Distribution of the GalaxiesGravitational Clustering in Cosmology, pp. 48 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999