The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology: A Survey to Celebrate the 65th Birthday of Dennis Sciama - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521433770 ISBN 13: 9780521433778

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This volume records the review meeting celebrating the 65th birthday of Dennis Sciama. The topics covered include fundamental questions in general relativity and cosmology, black holes, active galactic nuclei, galactic structure, dark matter, and large scale structure.

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Review

"Sciama's collaborators, students, and `grandstudents' provide interesting reviews and original essays--20 in all--on subjects ranging from galactic astronomy to quasars, from quantum measurement theory to superconducting strings...snapshots of an interesting moment in the development of theoretical cosmology." Science, Aaugust 5, 1994

"Ellis...shows how the revival of general relativity and cosmology has been influenced by Sciama's research groups at Cambridge, Oxford, and Tieste. He gives a short summary of Sciama's research, his passion for physics and for understanding the universe, and his care for students...Ellis emphasizes the relevance of exact solutions in gravitation and how the solutions may give interesting insights when their global properties are studied." Enric Verdaguer, Mathematical Reviews grtavitations

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521433770
• ISBN 13: 9780521433778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Ellis George, Lanza Antonio, Miller John