Introduction to General Relativity by Gerard ‘t Hooft (PDF)

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This book presents, in a natural and beautiful way, the general relativity as a scheme for describing the gravitational field and the equations it obeys. Starting from physical motivations, curved coordinates are introduced, and then the notion of an affine connection field is added. At a later step, the metric field is added. One then sees clearly how space and time get more and more structure, until finally Einstein’s field equations logically come out. Many applications of the theory are briefed and the readers are referred to a carefully prepared literature list for further details. However, extra attention is paid to an application on gravitational radiation which may become important in the near future but somehow is omitted from introductory text books a bit too often. This book, authored by a master theoretical physicist, serves well as a textbook for an elementary course in General Relativity.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “… a very elegant book on the theoretical foundations of General Relativity … very reminiscent of Dirac’s monograph but modernized …” — George Smoot, UC Berkeley… ‘t Hooft’s direct and rather elegant style will find many supporters … — Physics Today, July, 2001… a very elegant book on the theoretical foundations of General Relativity … very reminiscent of Dirac’s monograph but modernized … — George Smoot (UC Berkeley) About the Author Gerard ‘t Hooft, a professor at Institute for Theoretical Physics Utrecht University, is a world class physicist. He has made profound contributions to many research areas such as gauge theories in elementary particle physics, quantum gravity and black holes, and fundamental aspects of quantum physics. Among numerous rewards and prizes that Professor ‘t Hoof has received, is the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Professor Martinus J.G. Veltman, for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics (the Academy citation). The books authored by Professor ‘t Hooft include Under the Spell of the Gauge Principle (1994) and In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks (1996).

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⭐Recently, by chance, Nobel laureate Gerardus ‘t Hooft ( the head) came to my attention and I decided to buy some books he authored. “Introduction to GENERAL RELATIVITY” is a small booklet covering on page 1 to page 86 the basic physical ideas, the mathematical concepts and applications of the subject very well and ends with gravitational waves. I like to compare parts of it to “ Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” from 1916 to see how ideas are progressing. It is not a must on a bookshelf and the Author has made it free for humanity on his home page, but I want to micro-recompense the author a little bit for his contributions to state of the art physics, he has brought to life so far. In addition my copy may be found, in the near or far future, by a young mind and awake his interest for nature and its laws, which I think is a wonderful way to spent the days during ones presence on earth ( or mars). Furthermore I like to have books with me on vacation etc. to look up things and read and books are still very handy. Last but not least I recommend you the authors home page and his speeches on you tube; listen to the funny introduction when his host try to spell his name and pay attention to his humorous formulations.

⭐General relativity explained by one of the most profound theoretical physicist of the last 50 year. Very suitable for students.

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