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Ashok Das
University of Rochester, USA
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India
World Scientific
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LECTURES ON GRAVITATION
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Lakshmi - Lectures on 1 11/26/2010, 4:52 PM
To
Cristiane
and
D´ebora and Ivana
Preface
Over the past several years, I have taught a one-semester graduate
course on gravitation at the University of Rochester. The principles
of general relativity were developed systematically in a traditional
manner, and this prises my lectures of this course. The
class was attended by both graduate as well as several undergrad-
uate students. Correspondingly, the subject matter was developed
in detail using tensor analysis (rather