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Chapter Contents

• Part I. Historical:
  1. Cosmology 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:
  8. Patterns and illusions
  9. Percolation
  10. Minimal spanning trees
  11. Topology
  12. Fractals
  13. Bound clusters
  14. Correlation functions
  15. Distribution functions

• Part III. Gravity and Correlation Functions:
  16. The growth of correlations: I. a fluid description
  17. The growth of correlations: II. a particle description
  18. General correlation properties
  19. Computer simulations
  20. Simulations and observations of two-particle correlation

• Part IV. Gravity and Distribution Functions:
  21. General properties of distribution functions
  22. Dynamics of distribution functions
  23. Short review of basic thermodynamics
  24. Thermodynamics and gravity
  25. Thermodynamic formulation of the cosmological many-body problem
  26. The functional form of b(, T)
  27. Derivation of the spatial distribution function
  28. Properties of the spatial gravitational quasi-equilibrium distribution
  29. The velocity distribution function
  30. Evolution of GQED

• Part V. Computer Experiments for Distribution Functions:
  31. Spatial distribution functions
  32. Velocity distribution functions

• Part VI. Observations of Distribution Functions:
  33. Observed spatial distribution functions
  34. Observed peculiar velocity distribution functions
  35. Observed evolution of distribution functions

• Part VII. Future Unfoldings:
  36. Galaxy merging
  37. Dark matter again
  38. Initial states
  39. Ultimate fates.

• Bibliography

• Index