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Title: INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY, BLACK HOLES, AND COSMOLOGY
By: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199666458
ISBN 13: 9780199666454
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 20 November, 2014
Pages: 304
Description: A precise yet simple introduction to the foundations and main consequences of General Relativity. The first five chapters from Choquet-Bruhat's General Relativity and the Einstein Equations (2008) have been updated with new sections and chapters on black holes, gravitational waves, singularities and more to form this textbook.
Synopsis: General Relativity is a beautiful geometric theory, simple in its mathematical formulation but leading to numerous consequences with striking physical interpretations: gravitational waves, black holes, cosmological models, and so on. This introductory textbook is written for mathematics students interested in physics and physics students interested in exact mathematical formulations (or for anyone with a scientific mind who is curious to know more of the world we live in), recent remarkable experimental and observational results which confirm the theory are clearly described and no specialised physics knowledge is required. The mathematical level of Part A is aimed at undergraduate students and could be the basis for a course on General Relativity. Part B is more advanced, but still does not require sophisticated mathematics. Based on Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's more advanced text, General Relativity and the Einstein Equations, the aim of this book is to give with precision, but as simply as pos
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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