Space-Time Structure
Reprint of a classical book first published in 1950. This lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation is essential reading.
Product details
November 1985Paperback
9780521315203
128 pages
216 × 135 × 8 mm
0.15kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Unconnected Manifold:
- 1. Invariance
- 2. Integrals
- Part II. Affinely Connected Manifold:
- 3. Invariant derivatives
- 4. Some relations between ordinary and invariant derivatives
- 5. The notion of parallel transfer
- 6. The curvature tensor
- 7. The geodesics of an affine connexion
- 8. The general geometrical hypothesis about gravitation
- Part III. Metrically Connected Manifold:
- 9. Metrical affinities
- 10. The meaning of the metric according to the special theory of relativity
- 11. Conservation laws and variational principles
- 12. Generalizations of Einstein's theory.