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An Introduction to General Relativity and its Recent Achievements

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Recent Developments in Gravitation

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((NSSB,volume 44))

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I shall speak in these lectures of classical general relativity, trying to start from its foundations to arrive at some of its most recent achievements.

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  1. I.M.T.A., Université P. et M. Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75007, Paris, France

    Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

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  1. Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Maurice Lévy

  2. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

    S. Deser

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Choquet-Bruhat, Y. (1979). An Introduction to General Relativity and its Recent Achievements. In: Lévy, M., Deser, S. (eds) Recent Developments in Gravitation. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2955-8_2

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