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One Hundred Years of General Relativity

Name: One Hundred Years of General Relativity
Author: Wei-Tou Ni

From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity(Volume 1)

Wei-Tou Ni,

720 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

One Hundred Years of General Relativity

From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity(Volume 1)

Wei-Tou Ni,

About this book

The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory:Genesis, Solutions and EnergyEmpirical FoundationsGravitational WavesCosmologyQuantum GravityThe first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone reference volume for the related topic.

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