Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Carroll, Sean

ISBN 10: 0805387323 / ISBN 13: 9780805387322

Published by San Francisco, CA : Addison-Wesley, 2004

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Original boards, illustrated with numerous equations, graphs and diagrams, 8vo. Seller Inventory # 352848-ZC7

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Title: Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to ...

Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Addison-Wesley

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Sean Carroll is an assistant professor in the Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, and Center for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1993, and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been awarded fellowships from the Sloan and Packard foundations, as well as the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award. For more information, see his Web site at http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll