Additional relativity books
See also the old list on p. 2 of the notes.
New textbooks comparable to green Schutz
- Sean M. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry:
An Introduction to General Relativity, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2004.
(This book is slightly more advanced than Schutz's book
(and influenced by it).)
The lecture notes
that developed into the book are available for free.
- James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General
Relativity, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2003.
(This is considered more "physical" than Schutz's book.)
- Ray D'Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity,
Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1992.
New books, more advanced or specialized
- Theodore Frankel, The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction,
2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2004.
(This is not the same as the much shorter Frankel book on the old list.)
- Eric Poisson, A Relativist's Toolkit:
The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics,
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Books on the old list of special note
- Wolfgang Rindler, Essential Relativity: Special, General, and
Cosmological, revised 2nd ed., Springer, 1979.
(This covers special relativity in more detail than we have time for in
this course.)
- Bernard Schutz, Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics,
Cambridge University Press, 1980.
(Gray Schutz has surprisingly little overlap with green Schutz: more on
differential forms and Lie groups, less on covariant derivatives.)
And finally ...
- Abraham Pais, `Subtle is the Lord ...': The Science and the
Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 1982.
(great biography with significant scientific content)