General Relativity for Mathematicians 为数学家写的广义相对论（英文版）

图书标准信息

• 作者 R.K.Sachs、H.Wu 编
• 出版社 世界图书出版公司
• 出版时间 2000-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9787506200783
• 定价 47.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 24开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 291页

【内容简介】

Whileusingthisbookinclasses，wefoundthatourcanonicalreadercanlearnnonquantumphysicsratherquickly.Indeed,equippedwithgeometricintuitionandafacilitywithabstractarguments,heisinapositiontodealdirectlywiththegeneral,currentlyacceptedmodelsusedinrelativitywithoutbeinghandicappedbytheprejudicesthatinevitablycomewithyearsofNewtoniantraininginthestandardphysicscurriculum.However,thisshortcutdoesinvolveaprice:onecannotreallyseethediversityofspecialcasesbehindthedeceptivelysimplefoundationwithoutspendingmoretimethanamathematicsstudentnormallycanorshould.Wehavefeltforalongtimethataseriouseffortshouldbemadebyphysiciststocommunicatewithmathematicianssomewhatalongthelineofthisbook.Westartedwiththeaimofkeepingthephysicshonest,keepingth9mathematicshonest,andkeepingthelogicaldistinctionbetweenthetwostraight.Butwewereill-preparedfortheattendanttraumaofsuchanundertaking.

【作者简介】

R.K.Sachs，美国加州大学伯克利分校（university of california at berkeley）物理系教授。加州大学是世界著名公立研究型大学，在学术界享有盛誉，是世界公立大学之一。

【目录】

Guidelinesforthereader
Chapter0Preliminaries
0.0Reviewandnotation
0.1Physicsbackground
0.2Previewofrelativity
Chapter1Spacetimes
1.0Reviewandnotation
1.1Causalcharacter
1.2Timeorientability
1.3Spacetimes
1.4Examplesofspacetimes
Chapter2Observers
2.0Mathematicalpreliminaries
2.1Observersandinstantaneousobservers
2.2Gyroscopeaxes
2.3Referenceframes
Chapter3Electromagnetisimandmatter
Chapter4TheEinsteinfieldequation
Chapter5photons
Chapter6Cosmology
Chapter7Furtherapplications
Chapter8Optionalexercises:relativity
Chapter9Optionalexercises:Newtoniananalogues
Glossaryorsymbols
Bibliography
Indexofbasicnotations
Index