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Gravitation And Cosmology: Principles And Applications Of The General Theory Of Relativity Paperback

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8126517557
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8126517558
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 14 x 4 cm

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Steven L. Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he is "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Weinberg's articles on various subjects occasionally appear in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He has served as consultant at the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, President of the Philosophical Society of Texas, and member of the Board of Editors of Daedalus magazine, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the JASON group of defence consultants, and many other boards and committees.

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Noel Wass

A brilliant book at explaining General Relativity

Reviewed in the United States on 18 October 2019

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This is possibly the best book I have come across at explaining General Relativity. I am still concentrating on the first seven chapters that culminate in the derivation of Einstein's field equations. The tensor analysis is developed carefully and very thoroughly with careful explanations of all quantities including the affine connection and the Riemannian curvature tensor and the contracted Riemannian Curvature tensor. The author carefully explains in all cases what happens with thorough calculations what happens to the quantities under coordinate transformations. The Bianchi identities are here as well. It is true that there are other treatments but the coordinate approach seems to work well for doing calculations on the quantities of interest. What I like about this book is that everything is explained very carefully for example the treatment of the Principle of Equivalence on which Einstein based his theory. This is a brilliant book by a Nobel laureate and leading physicist. I am going to enjoy reading immensely the applications of GR which includes tests of General Relativity some of which had been developed by Albert Einstein. The tests of General Relativity which have been applied give everything an historical context. Of course more has been discovered as regards cosmology since the publication of the first edition of his book (1972) so the book is not completely up to date as regards cosmology (inflation) but it is still a very valuable resource. There are many applications of General Relativity including gravitational collapse and gravitational radiation that I am going to enjoy reading about.

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Toledo

Awful Printing qualities.

Reviewed in Mexico on 27 January 2018

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The book has the quality of a Springer print on demand book. For those who know it, this is awful. Too expensive to be of such a quality. I think it is an abuse from the publisher or from amazon. I didn't know that John Wiley and Sons where printing in this terrible conditions. The hard cover was designed for a book much smaller in wide because of the cheap paper it doesn't fit in this scheme. So sad that they have started too. Save it. You can print it for your self in best quality for a twentieth of the price! Total unfair; not happy at all with this book!

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