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Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (Hardcover)

by Steven Weinberg (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 657 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; First Edition edition (July 1972)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471925675
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471925675
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #290,288 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book based on the physics, not the mathematics, August 5, 2002
After a completing graduate school, I decided it was time to learn GR on my own. I got Weinberg's book, and, at first reading, I was put off by it--there are effectively no diagrams, no problems, and no pedagogy. So on to Misner, Thorne, Wheeler. Well these kings have no clothes: MTW contains almost no clean, declarative sentences and could be reduced to 1/4 its size with straightforward editing. So I bought B. F. Schutz's book read it, and and went back to Weinberg's book. With both in hand, I am acquiring a satisfying understanding of GR. And I now realize that Weinberg's book is a masterpiece. As in all his texts, Weinberg's passion is to expose the underlying logic of the physics. All follows from the Equivalnce Princple, and this view gives his book a logic coherency that other's lack. (Try seeing where the Equivalence principle fits in Schutz's presentation.) One criticism: I believe that Weinberg was writing a text for his peers to set them straight about GR; he neglected students. It would have been great if he could have included a mathematical appendix or two to make the text more accessible. But even so, it is a wonderful book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, June 1, 2000
I greatly appreciated this book when I was a student. The tensor analysis is very carefully explained; in addition, you really get a basic physics understanding. The equivalence principle and Mach-Einstein theories discussions are simply wonderful. Of course, some experimental data are too old now to be taken seriously.
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Exposition on General Relativity, August 10, 2000
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Weinberg is a master. His style is efficent. His words not wasted. His insights are inspiring. Behind each statement dwells a reservoir of thought. His selection and organization of the material seems non-improvable. Completion of the book yields general relativity in a comprehensive manner.

In addition to his methods, I am wholeheartedly biased towards his approach of basing general relativity on empiricism rather than geometry. Reading this book is almost synonomous with sitting at the feet of a master.

The methods utilized are standard tensor analysis, which yields the best results and understanding of the physics in a first exposure. MTW, in contrast, uses different mathematical approaches and moreover does so in an inconsistent manner. Weinberg is the BEST book, existing today, on general relativity period.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ancient and Obsolete
The beauty of general relativity (GR) lies in the connection it provides between geometry and physics. Weinberg's algebraic approach completely obscures this connection. Read more
Published on April 22, 2007 by Marcus

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique,Idiosyncratic Approach
Flashback to 1979.I Purchased Weinberg's Gravitation book and
Misner,Thorne, Wheeler's Gravitation book, simultaneously. Read more
Published on September 14, 2006 by G. A. Schoenagel

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book by a great physicist
This is the best book written on general relativity, and I have read or at least looked at nearly every one of them. Read more
Published on April 9, 2006 by physics student

2.0 out of 5 stars Old book that is hostile to the spirt of G.R.
There was a time when this book was probably very authoritative and useful (though I can't see myself preferring it over Hawking and Ellis, even then). Read more
Published on December 7, 2004 by PhysicsMirror

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegantly and concisely written
I used this book in a class taught by its author. That makes it hard to disentangle the experience of taking the class from the book itself. Read more
Published on July 7, 2004 by G. Lombardi

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent treatment of GR - written for a physicist
This is one of the finest GR books that is written for a physicist. Although it is slightly dated, it can still be profitably used today to learn the foundations of the subject... Read more
Published on March 16, 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars Has been overrated. Don't buy without comparing...
This is a seriously old-fashioned and out of date book. It was published around 1972 and EVEN THEN was knocked out of contention by the massively superior Misner, Thorne &... Read more
Published on August 3, 2001 by R. Ball

3.0 out of 5 stars The Pages are falling out
bought this book when it was new. I read it for the next 35 years. He uses units that are confusing and hard to calculate. Read more
Published on July 29, 2001 by R. Bagula

3.0 out of 5 stars Not geometrical?
Weinberg made waves when he wrote a book claiming the relationship between GR and geometry to be a coincidence of the mathematics. Read more
Published on July 10, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars This is Life!
The happiness after reading Weinberg's book can not be expressed by words. This can only be felt by heart.
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