Gravitation and Spacetime
"A most welcome updated third edition of this splendid textbook on gravitation and spacetime, which provides an excellent introduction to the mathematical and physical foundations underlying our current understanding of the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars, black holes, and gamma ray bursts."Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Johns Hopkins University"This is by far the best grad level text in gravitational physics. It starts by showing that the natural Lorentz invariant generalization of Newton's scalar potential is a tensor, a perturbation of the usual Lorentz metric. The equivalence principle is then used to derive the full equations of GR. The last half of the book gives a beautiful treatment of black holes and the current model of Big Bang cosmology."Roy P. Kerr, Prof. Emeritus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand"The third edition of this wonderful book combines even more perfectly than the previous editions the beauty of Einstein's General Relativity with the physics of stars, galaxies, and the cosmos. It manages to do this in only 500 pages in a pedagogical masterpiece that should be a must for any graduate student in theoretical physics."Hagen Kleinert, Professor of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and ICRANet Pescara, Italy, and Nice, France"The best book on the market today of 500 pages or less on gravitation and general relativity."John Wheeler, Princeton University [commenting on the first edition]