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Title: Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, Kip S. Thorne, Kip Thorne, John Wheeler ISBN: 0-7167-0344-0 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: September, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $118.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a true classic
Comment: I believe this is a must for every theoretical physicists.
This is a huge book containing so much information. I could
say it is flawless, and it virtually has no typos(Look at
books on superstring published so far). This is one of the
best books in a hundred years. Read it with Wald's General
Relativity.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good as they would have you believe
Comment: Virtually everyone who works or who worked or who would like to work in GR brags up this book and boasts of reading it from cover to cover. Most have not. I, unfortunately, have. It rambles and is scatterbrained and halfa* on many topics. The would be investigator would be better off following another course of study in differential topology and differential geometry, almost any other relativity text or texts, and the literature. It should be kept in mind, however, that when this book was first published the global methods were like lie algebra was at one time - researchers writing papers for and to each other with nobody else in mind. This was a supposed attempt to make the material available to a wider audience. It may have degenerated into intellectual onanism.
Rating: 5
Summary: somalian children should be made to memorize this
Comment: If you look very carefully, you can see gravitational lensing effects round the edge of this book, and it does tend to suck in all objects within a ten meter radius and compact them down to a singularity, but I have to say that in my time dabbling in it I haven't once opened it on a page where I didn't learn something new and/or gain a new insight. This is the first time, for example, that I've found a book this accessible which gives a PHYSICAL description of what a tensor actually is. Most of the other material I've read just describes transformation properties, which to be honest, when all's said and done, is of precisely no use whatsoever if you want to actually understand the topic, especially in a physics book, which, afterall, is supposed to describe physics (AHEM AH*d'Inverno'*EM). And as if that's not enough for you, it's well illustrated, it's written in some weird style with lots of exclamation marks and it's got a bunch of historical facts and quotes thrown in on the side. Read this, plus a book on gut bacteria, and you'll never run out of conversation at parties ever again.
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Title: General Relativity by Robert M. Wald ISBN: 0226870332 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: July, 1984 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: A First Course in General Relativity by Bernard F. Schutz ISBN: 0521277035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation by A. Lightman, R. H. Price ISBN: 069108162X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 1975 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Tensor Calculus (Schaum's) by David C. Kay ISBN: 0070334846 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles by David Lovelock, Hanno Rund ISBN: 0486658406 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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