Introduction to General Relativity (Pure & Applied Physics) [Hardcover]

Ronald Adler (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx); 2 edition (June 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070004234
• ISBN-13: 978-0070004238
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,358,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Book on General Relativity, April 3, 2003

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William Straub (Pasadena, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Introduction to General Relativity (Pure & Applied Physics) (Hardcover)

This second edition of the Adler, Bazin and Schiffer book is nothing short of miraculous. I have read it off and on for 25 years, and I always manage to learn something new from it. Although it cannot compete with the more recent texts on post-Newtonian mechanics, everything is here for the advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate student: tensor calculus; Riemannian and non-Riemannian geometries; tensor applications in electrodynamics; variational methods; Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes; Killing vectors; and much, much more. An entire chapter is devoted to Weyl's gauge-invariant theory and Wheeler's "already unified" field theory. If you have been completely turned off by Misner-Wheeler-Thorne's Gravitation book (along with its somewhat pretentious and totally confusing annotations and sidebar material), and yet you still want to learn a decent amount of general relativity, buy this book while copies are still available. I'm still hoping that a third edition (with a chapter on computer applications) will eventually hit the shelves.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to General Relativity, January 11, 2007

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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What is unique in this book is that it has the Gödel cosmological solution to
the general relativity equations. It has a good coverage of Weyl's gauge
equations as well and a discussion of the
topological implications of black holes.
The mathematics is well done and relatively easy to follow.
This text is a classic text on gravity theory.