Spacetime and Geometry
Douban
ISBN: 9780805387322
author:
Sean Carroll
publishing house:
Benjamin Cummings
publication date: 2003
-9
price: USD 135.67
number of pages: 513
An Introduction to General Relativity
overview
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through the intricacies of differential geometry and Einstein's equations, and on to exciting applications such as black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology.