Foreword to the Anniversary Edition Abhay Ashtekar; Preface to the Anniversary Edition George F. R. Ellis; Preface; 1. The role of gravity; 2. Differential geometry; 3. General relativity; 4. The physical significance of curvature; 5. Exact solutions; 6. Causal structure; 7. The Cauchy problem in General Relativity; 8. Space-time singularities; 9. Gravitational collapse and black holes; 10. The initial singularity in the universe; Appendixes; References; Notation; Index.
This influential work explores Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and its predictions relating to singularities in space-time.
Stephen W. Hawking (1942-2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009 and is the author of numerous books, including the international best-seller A Brief History of Time. (1989). George F. R. Ellis is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology and, in recent years, he has been prolific in areas relating to the philosophy of science. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Relativistic Cosmology (with Roy Maartens and Malcolm MacCallum, 2012).
'The book is a masterpiece, written by sure hands.' Science
'Certain to rank as an outstanding classic of the current advance
of relativity theory.' Contemporary Physics
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'This special 50th anniversary republication of this famous
monograph is well welcome addtion to the community. This text
helped lay the groundwork for gravitational research for the next
50 years; inspiring and educating generations of researchers. I
recommend this text to anyone who is interested in learning the
foundation of gravitational research.' Kymani Tieral Keden
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