Relativity

Wolfgang Rindler
My earlier book, Essential Relativity, aimed to provide a quick if thoughtful intro-duction to the subject at the level of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, while ‘containing enough new material and simplifications of old arguments so as not to bore the expert teacher.’ But general relativity has by now robustly entered the mainstream of physics, in particular astrophysics, new discoveries in cosmology are routinely reported in the press, while ‘wormholes’ and time travel have made it into popular TV. Students thus want to know more than the bare minimum. The present book offers such an extension, in which the style, the general philosophy, and the mathematical level of sophistication have nevertheless remained the same. Any-one who knows the calculus up to partial differentiation, ordinary vectors to the point of differentiating them, and that most useful method of approximation, the binomial theorem, should be able to read this book. But instead of the earlier nine chapters there are now eighteen, and instead of 167 exercises, now there are more than 300; above all, tensors are introduced without apology and then thoroughly used.

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