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In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has been found satisfactory. Also the basic purpose of the book remains the same, and that is to make relativity come alive conceptually. I have always felt much sym pathy with Richard Courant's maxim (as reported and exemplified by Pascual Jordan) that, ideally, proofs should be reached by comprehension rather than computation. Where computations are necessary, I have tried to make them as transparent as possible, so as not to hinder the progress of comprehension. Among the more obvious changes, this edition contains a new section on Kruskal space, another on the plane gravitational wave, and a third on linearized general relativity; it also contains many new exercises, and two appendices: one listing the curvature components for the diagonal metric (in a little more generality than the old" Dingle formulas "), and one syn thesizing Maxwell's theory in tensor form. But the most significant changes and additions have occurred throughout the text. Many sections have been completely rewritten, many arguments tightened, many "asides" added, and, of course, recent developments taken into account.
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Book Title: Essential Relativity
Book Subtitle: Special, General, and Cosmological
Authors: Wolfgang Rindler
Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86650-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Wolfgang Rindler 1977
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-07970-5Published: 14 June 1977
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-10090-4Due: 01 August 1980
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-86650-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1864-5879
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 286
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics