Acknowledgement.- Preface.- Special Relativity: setting the stage.- Manifolds and fibre bundles.- Connections and Metrics.- Motion in the Schwarzschild Field.- Einstein versus Yang Mills Field Equations.- Stellar Equilibrium.- Gravitational Waves and the Binary Pulsars.- Conclusion of volume 1.- Appendix A: Spinors and Gamma Matrix Algebra.- Appendix B: Mathematica Packages.- Index.
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