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ABSTRACT

1.OVERVIEW

1.1.The Universe at Large

1.1.1.Homogeneity and Isotropy

1.1.2.Scale Factors, Redshifts and all that

1.1.3.Important quantities: H₀, ₀, _c

1.2.The Hubble Parameter h

1.3.The Cosmological Constant

1.3.1.Expansion with

1.3.2.The parameter

1.3.3.Why introduce ?

1.4.The Value of ₀

1.4.1.The Deceleration Parameter q₀

1.4.2.The classical approach again

1.4.3.Cosmic Nucleosynthesis

1.4.4.₀ from Hubble flow deviations

1.5. = 1, Dark Matter and Inflation

1.5.1.Flatness and Inflation

2.INHOMOGENEOUS UNIVERSE - OBSERVATIONS

2.1.Preliminaries

2.1.1.2-Point Correlation Functions

2.1.2.The Power Spectrum

2.1.3.Biasing

2.2.Projected Surveys

2.3.Redshift Surveys

2.3.1.Optical Galaxy Samples

2.3.2.Surveys based on the IRAS catalogue

2.3.3.Pencil Beam Surveys

2.4.Surveys with Independent Distance Estimates

2.4.1.The Rubin-Ford Effect

2.4.2.Samples of Elliptical Galaxies

2.4.3.Samples of spiral galaxies

2.4.4.The "Real" 3-Dimensional Distribution

2.5.Clusters and Voids

2.5.1.Galaxy Clusters

2.5.2.The Cluster-Cluster Correlation Function

2.5.3.Voids

2.6.Great Attractors, Dipoles and all that

2.6.1.The Great Attractor and Others

2.6.2.Dipole Convergence

2.6.3.Large Scale Flows and CBR Anisotropy

2.7.Velocity Correlations

3.CLUSTERING MEASURES

3.1.Two-Point Correlation Functions

3.2.Higher Order Correlation Functions

3.3.Counts in cells

3.4.Genus

3.5.Multi-Fractals

4.THE INHOMOGENEOUS UNIVERSE - THEORY

4.1.The Origin of the Fluctuation Spectrum

4.2.Modelling the Evolution of Large Scale Structure

4.2.1.CDM models

4.2.2.CDM with "gas"

4.2.3.Adhesion Model

4.2.4.Classical Pancakes

4.2.5.Decaying WIMPS

4.3.Formation of Galaxy Clusters

4.4.Understanding Large Scale Structure

5.CONCLUSIONS

6.REFERENCES

7.BOOKS ON COSMOLOGY