Additional relativity books
(in addition to the old list on p. 2 of the notes)
New textbooks comparable to green Schutz
- Ray D'Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity,
Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 1992.
- James B. Hartle, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General
Relativity, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2003.
(This is considered more "physical" than Schutz's book.)
- 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.
- M. P. Hobson, G. Efstathiou, and A. N. Lasenby,
General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists,
Cambridge U. P., 2006.
- O. Gron and S. Hervik, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
with Modern Applications in Cosmology, Springer, 2007.
(more advanced)
- J. D. Walecka, Introduction to General Relativity,
World Scientific, 2007. (I haven't seen this one yet.)
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 U. P., 1980.
(Gray Schutz has surprisingly little overlap with green Schutz: more on
differential forms and Lie groups, less on covariant derivatives.)
The old mathematical supplement (before Isham)
- R. L. Bishop and S. I. Goldberg, Tensor Analysis on
Manifolds, Dover, 1980.
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)