Recent Developments in Gravitation: Cargèse 1978

Book Overview

The theory of General Relativity, after its invention by Albert Einstein, remained for many years a monument of mathemati- cal speculation, striking in its ambition and its formal beauty, but quite separated from the main stream of modern Physics, which had centered, after the early twenties, on quantum mechanics and its applications. In the last ten or fifteen years, however, the situation has changed radically. First, a great deal of significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306401983
• ISBN13: 9780306401985
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.