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  • Introducing advanced undergraduates to basic geometric concepts, such as metrics, connections and curvature, this textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applications. It shows the observational evidence supporting the theory, and the description general relativity provides of black holes and cosmological space-times.

  • Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology

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