Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to 50th Anniversary Edition
- Preface
- 1 The role of gravity
- 2 Differential geometry
- 3 General relativity
- 4 The physical significance of curvature
- 5 Exact solutions
- 6 Causal structure
- 7 The Cauchy problem in General Relativity
- 8 Space-time singularities
- 9 Gravitational collapse and black holes
- 10 The initial singularity in the universe
- Appendix A: Translation of an essay by Peter Simon Laplace
- Appendix B: Spherically symmetric solutions and Birkhoff’s theorem
- References
- Notation
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to 50th Anniversary Edition
- Preface
- 1 The role of gravity
- 2 Differential geometry
- 3 General relativity
- 4 The physical significance of curvature
- 5 Exact solutions
- 6 Causal structure
- 7 The Cauchy problem in General Relativity
- 8 Space-time singularities
- 9 Gravitational collapse and black holes
- 10 The initial singularity in the universe
- Appendix A: Translation of an essay by Peter Simon Laplace
- Appendix B: Spherically symmetric solutions and Birkhoff’s theorem
- References
- Notation
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
- Information
- The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time50th Anniversary Edition, pp. xix - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023