an excellent point of view on gravitation and astrophysics
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If there's anyone who's skilled in basic physical perspectives, and analytics. I strongly recommend to read this book as a guiding light to the Einstein's general relativity.
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A great master explains his view of gravitation
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Of course this is a great book. You can start at the first page and proceed right to the last without discontinuities, in an orderly, organized way. You will then have learned a huge amount of the gravity lore, physically oriented, as opposed to mathematically. Also, you'll have tensor calculus at your feet, in the traditional formulation, the one that Einstein used, as well as most of us. Once you have the great picture, you could learn Cartan mathematics, which greatly reduces calculation times. For this, Wheeler's "Gravitation" is recommended. Follow this sequence, by all means. Not the opposite!
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Not as good as Misner's Gravitation
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This is a good book from two points of view. First, it has a whole account in cosmology. Also, it discusses many experimental support. On the other hand, it suffers of an old-fashioned annoying tensorial notation.
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