What Are Good Math References for Understanding Cosmology?

[AuraCrystal]

I am planning on working through Dodelson's cosmology book, but I find my knowledge of things like Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, and Fourier transforms lacking.

What're some good references for these things?

 

[jedishrfu]

While not the best , you could consider Arfken and Weber a catchall for Mathematical Physics with chapters on these functions. From there you could branch out into other references given by the authors.

 

[AuraCrystal]

Do you have any good references on Fourier transforms? Arfken/Weber doesn't talk about them all that much. :/

 

[Sentin3l]

I believe the forum standard for this sort of recommendation is "mathematical methods of the physical sciences" by Mary Boas. I have a copy myself and it covers all the topics you'll need in fairly good depth, I would recommend it personally.

 

[Meir Achuz]

Electromagnetism books generally have good, concise treatments of Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, and Fourier transforms. I recommend "Classical Electromagnetism" by Franklin.