References
The recommended textbook is
- A. Zee, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press, 2013
I do not plan to follow it closely but since it was recommended for
225A I will try to refer to the relevant chapter as we move on.
The following were put on book reserves at the S&E library:
- Sean Carroll, Spacetime and geometry : an introduction
to general relativity, San Francisco, Addison Wesley, 2004
- Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne [and]
John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation,
San Francisco, W. H. Freeman, 1973
- Robert M. Wald,
General relativity,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984
- S. W.
Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The large scale
structure of space-time,
Cambridge University Press, 1973
- Steven
Weinberg,
Gravitation
and cosmology: principles and applications of the general
theory of relativity,
New York, Wiley 1972
- N.D. Birrell and P.C.W. Davies, Quantum fields in
curved space,
Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984
- Phillip James
Edwin Peebles, Principles
of physical cosmology, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
University Press, 1993
- Phillip James Edwin
Peebles, Physical cosmology,
Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971
- Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner, The early universe,
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley,
1990
- Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner,
editors, The Early
universe-reprints, Redwood City, Calif. :
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Advanced Book Program, 1988
- Scott Dodelson, Modern cosmology, San Diego,
Calif.; London: Academic Press (Elsevier), 2003
The following were not put on book reserves:
- A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry /
Michael Spivak
Berkeley : Publish or Perish, inc., 1979
- Stephen Hawking and Roger
Penrose, The nature of space
and time,
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996
- Bernard F. Schutz, A first course in
general relativity,
Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985
- Bernard F.
Schutz, Geometrical methods
of mathematical physics, Cambridge, New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1980