{"product_id":"spacetime-and-geometry-9780292741386","title":"Spacetime And Geometry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese reports, at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written, in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory, were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Why Is the Universe So Symmetrical? (Dennis Sciama) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Null Congruences and Plebanski-Schild Spaces (Ivor Robinson) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Linearization Stability (Dieter Brill) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Nonlinear Model Field Theories Based on Harmonic Mappings (Charles W. Misner) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Gravitational Fields in General Relativity (Roy P. Kerr) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. On the Potential Barriers Surrounding the Schwarzschild Black Hole \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. The Initial Value Problem and Beyond (James W. York, Jr., and Tsvi Piran) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index to Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index of Topics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400869060951,"sku":"9780292741386","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spacetime-and-geometry-9780292741386","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}