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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent At What It's Meant To Do,
By Marcus (California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics (Paperback)
As the book title suggests, this is not an introduction to general relativity. However, with a basic understanding of general relativity and differential geometry, this book can be a very rewarding read. There are many other text books that cover the same material, but only superficially. This book fills in the gaps and provides the details that are indispensable for anyone doing research in the field or just seeking a deep understanding of general relativity. Explanations are concise and clear, with a logic that is sound and well-organzied. The chapter on the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity is the best I have seen in any book published so far; it provides the details that Wald and Carroll either neglect or gloss over in their textbooks. I only wish the book covered a few more topics. With only 250 pages, it can stand the addition of a few more chapters, perhaps on modified theories of gravity, initial value formulation, or advanced methods for solving the Einstein field equations.
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A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics by Eric Poisson (Hardcover - June 7, 2004)
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