"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and ...
Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition "a very readable and accurate account of modern relativity physics for the layman within the unavoidable constraint of almost no mathematics ...
The inevitability of gravitational collapse for stellar bodies of sufficient mass was convincingly demonstarted by S. Chandrasekhar in the 1930s, black holes and neutron stars played a minor role in serious analyses of physical or astrophysical phenomena until the discovery of quasars and pulsars in the 1960s. Black holes and neutron stars are now ...
In this book, Robert Wald provides a pedagogical introduction to the formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. He begins with a treatment of the ordinary one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator, progresses through the construction of quantum field theory in flat spacetime to possible constructions of quantum field theory in ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA (FCE)
ISBN-13:9789681681777ISBN:9681681770
Description: New in new dust jacket. Wald aborda principalmente la espectacular teoría del Big Bang, la gran explosión que dio origen al universo tal y como lo conocemos, y el inquietante fenómeno de los agujeros negros, parte central de la astronomía y de la física de nuestros días. read more
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