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The aim of this groundbreaking new book is to bring general relativity into the undergraduate curriculum and make this fundamental theory access... read full description


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May 19, 2010
DJ rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Trying to teach undergrads general relativity is about as easy as teaching a puppy... general relativity. Hartle strikes a pretty good balance with this book, offering 30-page chapters with *gasp* only a half-dozen equations that focus on conveying high-level concepts as well as chapters fully devoted to tensors, covariant derivatives, and all the mathematical weapons one needs to predict the large-scale structure of the universe. Hartle also provides plenty of worked examples, which are reall More...
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