Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 P. S. Laplace
- Appendix B Spherically symmetric solutions and Birkhoff's theorem
- References
- Notation
- Index
Appendix A - Translation of an essay by P. S. Laplace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 P. S. Laplace
- Appendix B Spherically symmetric solutions and Birkhoff's theorem
- References
- Notation
- Index
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- The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time , pp. 365 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973
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