• INTRODUCTORY COMMENT:
  • The course will be given from notes and other available materials. The books listed below encompass a sound body of material, and extensive reading outside the class will be absolutely essential. Prior familiarity with all aspects of classical mechanics (e.g. PHY 6246) and electromagnetic theory at the graduate level (e.g. PHY 6346) will definitely be assumed.

  • Additional Texts:
    • Bernard F. Schutz, "A first course in General Relativity" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985) ISBN 0-521-27703-5
    • Bernard F. Schutz, "Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980) ISBN 0-521-29887-3

  • Supplementary Reading:
    • J. Foster and J. D. Nightingale, "A short course in General Relativity" 2nd edition (Springer- Verlag, New York, 1995) ISBN 0-387-94295-5
    • James B. Hartle, "Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Rlativity" (Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, 2003) ISBN 0-8-53-8662-9
    • M. P. Hobson, G. P. Efstathiou and A. N. Lasenby, "General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006) ISBN 0-521-82951-8
    • L. P. Hughston and K. P. Tod, "An Introduction to General Relativity" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990) ISBN 0-521-33943-X
    • Ray d’Inverno, "Introducing Einstein’s Relativity" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992) ISBN 0-19-859686-3
    • I. R. Kenyon, "General Relativity" (Oxford, Oxford, 1990) ISBN 0-19-851996-6
    • Wojciech Kopczyinski and Andrzej Trautman, "Spacetime and Gravitation" (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992) ISBN 0-471-92186-6
    • Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler, "Gravitation" (W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1973) ISBN 0-7167-0344-0
    • Jerzy Plebanski and Andrzej Krasinski, "An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006) ISBN 0-521-85623-X
    • Hans Stephani, "Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity" 3rd ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004) ISBN 0-521-01069-1

  • Advanced Texts:
    • M. Demianski, "Relativistic Astrophysics" (Pergamon Press, New York, 1985) ISBN 0-080-25042-4
    • S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, "The Large Scale Structure of Space-time" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973) ISBN 0-521-09906-4
    • Kirill Krasnov, "Foemulations of General Relativity: Gravity, Spinors and Differential Forms" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020) ISBN 978-1-108-48164-9
    • L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, "The Classical Theory of Fields" fourth revised English edition (Pergamon Press, New York, 1975) ISBN 0-08-018176-7
    • John Stewart, "Advanced General Relativity" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993) ISBN 0-521-44946-4
    • N. Straumann, "General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1984) ISBN 0-387-13010-1
    • N. Straumann, "General Relativity" 2nd ed. (Springer, Dordrecht, 2013) ISBN 978-94-007-5409-6 or 978-94-007-5410-2 (eBook)
    • Robert M. Wald, "General Relativity" (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984) ISBN 0-226-87033-2

  • Special Topics:
    • Alan P. Lightman, William H. Press, Richard H. Price & Saul A. Teukolsky, "Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation" (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1975) ISBN 0-691-08162-X
    • Viatcheslav Mukhanov, "Physical Foundations of Cosmology" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005) ISBN 0-521-56398-7
    • Eric Poisson, "A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black Hole Mechanics" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004) ISBN 0-521-83091-5
    • Hans Stephani, Dietrich Kramer, MacCallum, Cornelius Hoenselaers & Eduard Hertl, "Exact Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations" 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003). ISBN 0-521-46136-7