Cosmological crossroads. An advanced course in mathematical, physical and string cosmology. Lectures given at 1st Aegean summer school on Cosmology, Samos Island, Greece, September 21--29, 2001 (Q1419891)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Cotsakis, Spiros; Leach, Peter G. L.}, Is nature generic?, 3-15 [Zbl 1043.83036] \textit{Paraskevopoulos, Andreas}, Evolution of ideas in modern cosmology, 16-26 [Zbl 1043.83039] \textit{Choquet-Bruhat, Yvonne; York, James W.}, Constraints and evolution in cosmology, 29-58 [Zbl 1043.83006] \textit{Cotsakis, Spiros}, Cosmological singularities, 59-94 [Zbl 1043.83024] \textit{Bonanos, Sotirios}, Exact cosmological solutions, 95-110 [Zbl 1042.83009] \textit{Miritzis, John}, Introduction to cosmological dynamical systems, 111-143 [Zbl 1047.83042] \textit{Plionis, Manolis}, The quest for the cosmological parameters, 147-207 [Zbl 1045.83002] \textit{Georgantopoulos, Ioannis}, Modern cosmological observations, 208-222 [Zbl 1043.83569] \textit{Tsagas, Christos G.}, Cosmological perturbations, 223-261 [Zbl 1043.83041] \textit{Lahanas, Athanasios B.}, Dark matter: a particle theorist's viewpoint, 262-284 [Zbl 1043.83570] \textit{Tanvakis, Kyriakos}, An introduction to particle physics, 287-317 [Zbl 1043.81077] \textit{Christodoulakis, Theodosios}, Quantum cosmology, 318-350 [Zbl 1055.83014] \textit{Lazarides, George}, Inflationary cosmology, 351-391 [Zbl 1047.83041] \textit{Mavromatos, Nick E.}, String cosmology, 392-457 [Zbl 1085.83513] \textit{Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios}, Brane cosmology, 458-477 [Zbl 1042.83035]