James B. Hartle
Auteur de Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
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Œuvres de James B. Hartle
Basic General Relativity 2 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Hartle, James B.
- Nom légal
- Hartle, James Burkett
- Autres noms
- Hartle, Jim
- Date de naissance
- 1939-08-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Études
- California Institute of Technology
- Professions
- physicist
professor - Relations
- Gell-Mann, Murray (doctoral advisor)
- Organisations
- University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Fe Institute
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- Œuvres
- 4
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- 1
- Membres
- 148
- Popularité
- #140,180
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 10
That said, I survived an undergraduate intro to GR and... it wasn't that bad. It was hard, no doubt there, but the book was solid and helpful.
My one complaint is that there is a tendency to skip steps in examples; these are often mathematical steps that may seem obvious or even trivial, and are sometimes messy intermediate stages of calculus and algebra that someone probably thought of as only taking up valuable space. But: for a student, seeing the stuff for the first time, every step matters (I'd say, "of course, obviously," but maybe not...) Sometimes the minutiae of the simple algebra helps complete an explanation where a 6th re-reading of the same paragraph just won't.
Long winded for one complaint, can you tell I *just* finished the class? :)
Solid 4 stars.… (plus d'informations)