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From: Pollux on 8 Jun 2010 17:46 I'm looking for a good book on GR that would teach the maths in an accessible way (that doesn't _start_ with sections of tangents bundles and differential forms). Any suggestion? Pollux --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Igor on 8 Jun 2010 18:04 On Jun 8, 5:46 pm, Pollux <po....(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a good book on GR that would teach the maths in an > accessible way (that doesn't _start_ with sections of tangents bundles > and differential forms). Any suggestion? > > Pollux > > --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: n...(a)netfront.net --- Try Adler, Bazin, & Schiffer, Introduction to General Relativity, Mc.Graw-Hill 1965.
From: carlip-nospam on 8 Jun 2010 18:19 Pollux <po.lux(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a good book on GR that would teach the maths in an > accessible way (that doesn't _start_ with sections of tangents bundles > and differential forms). Any suggestion? It depends where you're starting from. Hartle, _Gravity_, is an undergraduate text based on the "physics first" approach, starting from concrete examples and developing the detailed math later. Carroll's _Spacetime and Geometry_ is more conventional, but I think fairly easy to follow; an early version is available on the Web, so you can look at it and see. I've heard good things about Moore's _General Relativity Workbook_, http://pages.pomona.edu/~tmoore/grw/, but haven't gone over it thoroughly; it's another undergraduate "physics first" book. Steve Carlip
From: Pollux on 8 Jun 2010 19:32 (6/8/10 3:19 PM), carlip-nospam(a)physics.ucdavis.edu wrote: > Pollux<po.lux(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm looking for a good book on GR that would teach the maths in an >> accessible way (that doesn't _start_ with sections of tangents bundles >> and differential forms). Any suggestion? > > It depends where you're starting from. Hartle, _Gravity_, is an > undergraduate text based on the "physics first" approach, starting > from concrete examples and developing the detailed math later. > Carroll's _Spacetime and Geometry_ is more conventional, but I > think fairly easy to follow; an early version is available on the Web, > so you can look at it and see. I've heard good things about Moore's > _General Relativity Workbook_, http://pages.pomona.edu/~tmoore/grw/, > but haven't gone over it thoroughly; it's another undergraduate > "physics first" book. > > Steve Carlip Thanks! I have Robert M Wald, General Relativiy, but I found chapter 3 a bit hard to get into without a certain mathematical background already. It feels like a quite succinct presentation, that says everything that needs to be said of course, but in a quite abstract way. Thanks again. Pollux --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Sue... on 8 Jun 2010 21:32
On Jun 8, 5:46 pm, Pollux <po....(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a good book on GR that would teach the maths in an > accessible way (that doesn't _start_ with sections of tangents bundles > and differential forms). Any suggestion? If you can to postpone gravity and topology this nearly fills your bill: "Maxwells Equations and the Principles of Electromagnetism" Richard Fitzpatrick ISBN 1934015202 Much of it is available online: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node106.html Sue... > > Pollux > > --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: n...(a)netfront.net --- |