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General Relativity
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.11
EAN: 9780226870335
ISBN: 0226870332
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 506
Publication Date: June 15, 1984
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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Editorial Review:
"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."—S. Chandrasekhar "A tour de force: lucid, straightforward, mathematically rigorous, exacting in the analysis of the theory in its physical aspect."—L. P. Hughston, Times Higher Education Supplement "Truly excellent. . . . A sophisticated text of manageable size that will probably be read by every student of relativity, astrophysics, and field theory for years to come."—James W. York, Physics Today
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Rating:  - Excellent text for classical general relativity
Wald's book was the standard text for two graduate courses in GR that I took during my PhD (one was an introductory grad course on GR and the other was an advance special topics course on black holes). The first six chapters lay the groundwork for classical GR, starting with a quick recap of the tensor notation (Wald's Index free notation is very useful), a little bit of differential geometry and the Einstien's equations. The Initial value problem of GR is treated in an elegant chapter that concludes ... Read More
Rating: - Clear and Concise
Wald's book stands out as the clearest presentation of general relativity yet produced. The downside is that the conciseness often makes it inaccessible to the beginner. If you try to learn from this book, you *need to do exercises* (from this book or another). It is too hard to follow if you don't have the experience of computations under your belt. But once you do get to the point where you follow Wald, you will follow him easily and pleasurably, as he writes with effortless clarity.
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Rating:  - Daunting at first...
The book starts out well and then quickly becomes a refresher in topology! Not a great first text on general relativity if your higher math is shakey but as it progresses it becomes easier to read. Stable, concise, an exceptional work full of wonderful graphs, equations, and description.
Not for the beginner or the merely curious, this is a book for the serious student pursuing relativity in context of astrophysics, cosmology, or some similar discipline.
Rating: - Great advanced general relativity book
For about twenty years this book has more or less been a standard text that almost anyone seeking a deep understanding of general relativity should master. There is a good reason for that, it's a great book.
The first half of the book covers the basics of general relativity. The approach is very geometrical, this is essential for a deep understanding of general relativity and to understand almost any of the literature. However, there is a practical issue with a geometric approach, the notation ... Read More
Rating: - Good
I used this text for a course after taking an undergraduate GR course based on Shutz. I found Shutz to be a much clearer and pedagogical text, and don't think I would have learned GR as easily if I had started with Wald. I think one requires greater mathematical preparation than I possess to fully appreciate the discussions involving topology in the second chapter and appendix. Oddly, however, this text becomes clearer as the reader advances through it: later chapters were more straightforward and still ... Read More
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