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Title: General Theory of Relativity by P. A.M. Dirac ISBN: 0-691-01146-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 08 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dirac's magnificent slim volume
Comment: Paul A.M. Dirac' General Theory of Relativity is a remarkable book. Florida State University was very fortunate to have this outstanding Nobel physicist and Lucasian Professor of Physics at Cambridge in residence where he completed this book for a course of lectures in the Physics Department at Florida State University in February, 1975.
The book represents the necessary mathematics of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Einstein's theory requires a curved space for the description of the physical world. Plainly, if one wishes to go beyond a superficial discussion of the physical relations one needs to set up precise equations for handling curved space.
The point was that by the time Dirac wrote this slim volume of 69 pages there was a well-established but rather complicated mathematical technique that does this. Dirac's contribution was to bring it all together succinctly and sufficiently to give beginning students a working knowledge of the General Theory. Of course, there is no sense in arguing that things have progressed well beyond what Dirac has achieved in his book; however, it serves still as an excellent statement of what is needed to move ahead. It is hardly out of date, and for anyone on familiar terms with General Relativity this book is just a pleasure to read or study. This book also reflects a biographical fact about Dirac. He was a laconic person just as I would suggest this book is similarly a reflection of that personality.
Lastly, it should be noted that Dirac was succeeded in the Lucasian Chair of Theoretical Physics by Stephen Hawking.
James van Luik
Spinoza Professor
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but not enought.
Comment: This is a very interesting book for advanced undergraduate students from a Nobel laureate, but I think that it could be better. For example, it doesn't say anything about equivalence principle and it uses a very hard notation and has no examples or exercises at all!! It is much more like mathematics than physics.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you know special relativity a great way to go
Comment: This is quite simply an amazing book. It uses the older component notation to give an rather complete treatment of the basics of GR in something like 69 pages. It is beautiful and elegant like all of P.A.M Dirac's papers and books. There is no global formalism and the book is not comprehensive but it is a great treatment. One work of caution. The reader who has already had some GR may find it more approachable. But I do not believe this is necessarily true.
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Title: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics by Paul A. M. Dirac ISBN: 0486417131 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 22 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P. A. M. Dirac ISBN: 0198520115 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Wave Mechanics (Vol. 5 of Pauli Lectures on Physics) by Wolfgang Pauli ISBN: 0486414620 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Electrodynamics (Vol. 1 of Pauli Lectures on Physics) by Wolfgang Pauli ISBN: 0486414574 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Theory of Relativity by W. Pauli ISBN: 048664152X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1981 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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