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This unique book provides a clear and lucid description of several aspects of astrophysics and cosmology in a language understandable to a physicist or beginner in astrophysics. It presents the key topics in all branches of astrophysics and cosmology in a simple and concise language. The emphasis is on currently active research areas and exciting new frontiers rather than on more pedantic topics. Many complicated results are introduced with simple, novel derivations which strengthen the conceptual understanding of the subject. The book also contains over one hundred exercises which will help students in their self study.Undergraduate and graduate students in physics and astrophysics as well as all physicists who are interested in obtaining a quick grasp of astrophysical concepts will find this book useful.

It is fun in the same sense that Feynman's Lectures on Physics Volume 3 or Leighton's Principles of Modern Physics was fun to read some 40 years ago when I was a beginning graduate student. --Physics Today

A serious session with Padmanabhan's book does for the mind what a vigorous workout in the gym does for the body ... even the most distinguished professor of astrophyiscs will gain fresh insights from An Invitation to Astrophysics. --American Journal of Physics

This book is a nice introduction to several fields of astrophysics. It is useful for students interested in this special field, but also for researchers of several other fields, as it concentrates on the fundamental questions instead of going into too much details. --Zentralblatt MATH