This is possibly the best book I have come across at explaining General Relativity. I am still concentrating on the first seven chapters that culminate in the derivation of Einstein's field equations. The tensor analysis is developed carefully and very thoroughly with careful explanations of all quantities including the affine connection and the Riemannian curvature tensor and the contracted Riemannian Curvature tensor. The author carefully explains in all cases what happens with thorough calculations what happens to the quantities under coordinate transformations. The Bianchi identities are here as well. It is true that there are other treatments but the coordinate approach seems to work well for doing calculations on the quantities of interest. What I like about this book is that everything is explained very carefully for example the treatment of the Principle of Equivalence on which Einstein based his theory. This is a brilliant book by a Nobel laureate and leading physicist. I am going to enjoy reading immensely the applications of GR which includes tests of General Relativity some of which had been developed by Albert Einstein. The tests of General Relativity which have been applied give everything an historical context. Of course more has been discovered as regards cosmology since the publication of the first edition of his book (1972) so the book is not completely up to date as regards cosmology (inflation) but it is still a very valuable resource. There are many applications of General Relativity including gravitational collapse and gravitational radiation that I am going to enjoy reading about.

This is amazing book. It has a lot details that in a more traditional books don't mention. I mean in a traditional and introductoy books.

I don't think is the best book for a beginner, but for someone who wants to learn in depth general relativity this book is completely necessary.

Also, it's a bargain. You must buy this book if you want someday to be a expert in General Relativity. This book should the second book after a introduction such as Hobson, Foster, Carroll, etc

It’s just POD, so quality of print is not that good and binding is glue. But this book is classical textbook for relativity and I’m so happy with just I can get this one.

On of "the" book for GR. I had a soft cover and it worn out and bought the hard cover this is always being my companion for GR in graduate studies. Yes it is little bit dated (specially experimental results like the expansion rate of the universe) but if you are not new to the field of gravity you already know all the updated experimental results. The value of this book is not to find accurate experimental results (you can read latest research articles if you want that) but to gain every bit and piece of the structure of gravitational theory in very great detail towards the line of physics. You would be able to find answers to lots of "whys" you had when you encountered cosmology and GR for the first time. Some of the notations are also out dated. But ideas are still there. I do not think a serious person in the field of gravity will care about few out dated results and notations compared to the entire content of the book.

While this might not be too fair since the author states this in the preface, I found the approach of this book to not be very satisfactory. GR is a beautiful theory and for me part of that beauty is the ability to explain the nature of space time through geometry. Weinberg instead chooses the opposite route, devolving GR into a series of ugly tensor equations with indices flying everywhere. I also don't agree with the author that other forces aren't geometric in nature. The other three forces can all be written as Yang-Mills type theories and these are incredibly geometrical. After all they are based on connections on principal bundles and other concepts found in differential geometry. It is also a bit dated especially with regards to cosmology, and for that one can see Weinberg's newer book "Cosmology". I would recommend Wald or Straumann way before I suggested someone used this book.

Anything with gravitation in the title is a good book to me. Even The Riddle of Gravitation can be made good by ripping the book at the binding such that the first 177 pages are seperated & the Appendix is read. WH Freeman makes a good text titled Gravitation. I look forward to opening this one. It is with M057 3L1Te's CRC.

Should be in every physicist shelf! I was lucky to find a used version of the old hardback! Avoid the print on demand version.

A classic introduction to Einstein's relativity and it's applications to the universe around us. Even though this was written before the discovery that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the development of the ideas leading up to and stemming from Einstein's general relativity make this one a "need to have" for anyone interested in the field.

The book was delivered in proper time. I'll use it for my study.

What fantastic service .. just a couple of days to come from India .. and in perfect condition.

A classic text on G.R. and gravitation, written by a master of theoretical physics. Just brilliant.

This book is one of the must books for anyone who wants to understand the foundation of cosmology.

Kitap kesinlikle çok faydalı ve mutlaka okunması gereken bir kitap. Kitabın fiyatı orjinal satış fiyatının çok altında fakat kitabın özelliği muhtemelen hindistan basımı. Wiley'nin basımına kesinlikle benzemiyor. Ya da hindistan ve bölgesinde satılan kitap. Satıcı bu özelliğini belirtmiyor. Telefonda ithal edildiğini söylediler. Muhtemelen bu özellik belirtilse, fiyatından dolayı talep edilmeyebilir. Ciltli özelliği bir süre kullanımdan sonra özelliğini çabuk yitirebilecek gibi gözüküyor. İç dikişleri yok yapıştırma. Dürüstlük maalesef satış bilgisinde yok.

Es una suerte poder contar con amazom para encontrar todo aquello que ya no se edita en mi idioma como son los libros.