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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 08 August 2019

An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 49,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1990

This textbook provides an introduction to general relativity for mathematics undergraduates or graduate physicists. After a review of Cartesian tensor notation and special relativity the concepts of Riemannian differential geometry

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 June 2021

Best-selling, accessible physics-first introduction to GR uses minimal new mathematics and begins with the essential physical applications.

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2018

Following the approach of Lev Landau and Evgenii Lifshitz, this book introduces the theory of special and general relativity with the Lagrangian formalism and the principle of least action. This

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 13 September 2012

General relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics, and is of major importance in its applications to cosmology. Plebanski and Krasinski are experts in the field and provide a thorough

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 January 2020

A student-friendly style, over 100 illustrations, and numerous exercises are brought together in this textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics and mathematics. Lewis Ryder develops the theory

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2010

"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 06 March 2015

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 January 2016

Covers the geometry of curved space, geodesics, parallel transport, covariant differentiation, geodesic deviation and spacetime symmetry by Killing vectors. The book then introduces Einstein's theory of gravitation and Schwarzschild solution

• Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 October 2016

Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology gives undergraduate students an overview of the fundamental ideas behind the geometric theory of gravitation and spacetime. Through pointers on how to modify and