Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The ‘Foundation’ section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the nex

Table of Contents:
1. Special relativity 2. Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity 3. Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection 4. Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative 5. Curvature of spacetime 6. Einstein’s field equations and