Found in Translation…
Here I am, back in Maynooth, after taking the early flight back to Dublin from rainy Cardiff. By way of a gentle re-introduction to the habit of blogging after a gap of a week or so I thought I’d mention something I discovered when I returned:
This pleasant surprise was a package from Oxford University Press containing five copies of the new Turkish edition of my book Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction.I don’t know if there are any staff or students in Maynooth who (a) can read Turkish and (b) are interested in cosmology but if there are please contact me and you can have a copy!
(I’m particularly intrigued by how the first two words of the sub-title are to be pronounced…)
Anyway, I thought it would be nice to show some of the other translations of this book. This one is in Arabic. I was a bit confused when I first saw this edition, because books in Arabic open the opposite way to books in English, as Arabic is read from right to left rather than from left to right.
The following are in Korean, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Dutch and Czech, respectively:
Anyway, I’m due to finish the 2nd Edition – which will be a completely new book rather than an update – by the end of next month so hopefully there will be translations of the new version in due course!
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In the Dark 
August 7, 2019 at 2:38 pm
I wish that Martin Rees would do as you are doing and update his book “New Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology,” which was an excellent summary at the next level of reader expertise, but is now rather dated (most recent edition: 2000).
August 7, 2019 at 2:45 pm
Yes, that’s a very nice little book but now sadly very dated.
August 7, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Good going.
August 7, 2019 at 4:21 pm
I am curious to see what the book says about explanations for mass-acceleration discrepancy relation, baryonic Tully-fisher relaton and Lithium-7 problem in BBn.