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A classic textbook designed to help students understand general relativity
Robert M. Wald's book has been a staple of physics teaching for decades. It offers straightforward, rigorous analyses of current understandings of all the central questions and problems of the field, giving each the complexity it requires while making every effort to keep the whole accessible to a student who is embarking on the study of this subject for the first time.
About the Author: Robert M. Wald is professor in the Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Title: General Relativity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1984-06-15
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New