This scholarly yet accessible textbook is highly recommended for a course on general relativity.' Bahram Mashhoon, University of Missouri 'This book offers a lucid introduction to Einstein's theory of ...

Stephen Hawking, University of Cambridge ‘… the best elementary introduction to general relativity ever written ... ‘This book should appeal to a new generation of physicists… It includes an excellent ...

Einstein’s special relativity, which he formulated in his “miracle year” of 1905, was a theory that revolutionised our ideas of space and time – and ultimately paved the way for some even ...

Excerpt from the back cover: This book will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked out problems, and exercises ...

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is one of the towering achievements of 20th-century physics. In our introduction to general relativity, we explain how this theory developed ...

Ten years before general relativity, Einstein came up with special relativity, which explained the relationship between space and time – and how they are related to each other. 'Special' means ...

His theory of special relativity stemmed from his desire to understand the nature of light and what would happen to objects ...