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Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation: Edited by Steven M. Christensen

By Bryce DeWitt (auth.) , Steven M. Christensen (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2011
ISBN
3540369090, 9783540369097
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-36911-0
ISSN
0075-8450
Google Books ID
Dnjvs4WugUAC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1764490 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 826
Edition
1
Pages
288\300
Library
Kolxo3
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-04-04 14:00:00
Classical and Quantum GravitationRelativity Theory;Mathematical Methods in Physics;

Description

Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes. Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics.

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