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The purpose of these lectures is to provide a simple review of relativity, and in particular to exhibit certain situations in general relativity (GR) whose geometry (especially curvature and topology) are prominent, so as to counterbalance the approach to general relativity which treats gravity as a mere field theory with spin two. This latter approach plays down some of general relativity’s most characteristic features. [For some of the basic facts assumed here without proof the reader can consult my Essential Relativity, revised second edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1980.]
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Suggested Further Reading
J. L. Synge, Relativity: The General Theory (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1960).
C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1973).
H. Stephani, General Relativity (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982).
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Rindler, W. (1990). Black Holes and Horizons—The Geometry of Kruskal Space and Rindler Space. In: Rosenblum, A. (eds) Relativity, Supersymmetry, and Strings. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9504-5_6
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