2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13215This paper reviews selected aspects of the growth of cosmological structure, covering the following general areas: (1) expected characteristics of linear density perturbations according to various candidate theories for the origin of structure; (2) low-order theory for statistical measures of fluctuations; (3) formation of nonlinear structures and nonlinear evolution of the mass distribution; (4) the relation between the density field and the galaxy distribution; (5) constraints on cosmological models from galaxy clustering and its evolution.To appear in the Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Conference "Evolution of large-scale structure", Garching, August 1998Astrophysicstext