SPACETIME AND GEOMETRY: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY

Sean M. Carroll

ISBN 10: 1108488390 / ISBN 13: 9781108488396

Published by Cambridge University Press, US, 2019

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Laminate pictorial boards. Top corner folded to pages 293-296; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Soiling to first free endpaper; otherwise, endpapers are clean and unmarked. Text block has faint soiling to lower edge from shelf wear, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Boards have light to moderate shelf wear to boards and extremities, moderate bumping to corners and ends of spine, and tearing to laminate at corners. Binding is tight, spine leans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SPACETIME AND GEOMETRY: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, US
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108488390
• ISBN 13: 9781108488396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.

About the Author

Sean M. Carroll is Research Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on general relativity, cosmology, field theory, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, the Winton Science Book Prize from the Royal Society, a Guggenheim fellowship, and teaching awards from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.