Learning Einstein's General Relativity

[Moayd Shagaf]

So, I'm going to learn general relativity but I'm confused in which book I start with
Bernard Schutz book seems excellent but I'm more interested in d'Inverno book,
And Misner/Throne Book Seems complete but its giant and good for reference, So
I think I will go with d'Inverno , but first I need to know about your opnion on Schutz books and If it best than d'Inverno book??

 

[phinds]

So, I'm going to learn general relativity but I'm confused in which book I start with
Bernard Schutz book seems excellent but I'm more interested in d'Inverno book,
And Misner/Throne Book Seems complete but its giant and good for reference, So
I think I will go with d'Inverno , but first I need to know about your opnion on Schutz books and If it best than d'Inverno book??

Have you tried a forum search? There have been LOTS of threads here on the best books for GR. A good place to start is the list of links at the bottom of this page.

 

[Daverz]

I suggest B. Crowell's free GR book

http://www.lightandmatter.com/genrel/

Schutz is a better introductory text than d'Inverno. I'd also look at the books by Hartle and Cheng.

 

[smodak]

Go for Hartle instead of D'Inverno or Schutz. Hartle is the best introductory book there is in my opinion.

 

[ibkev]

I thought this article had an interesting discussion of the various approaches to teaching GR. Might help you choose a book in the style that suits the way you learn best. https://www.aapt.org/doorway/TGRU/articles/Moore GRArticle.pdf

 

[smodak]

If you want to know more about the hartle book, look at
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/looking-for-good-book-on-gr.889471/#post-5597133

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What about Einstein's own paper: "Relativity: The General and the Special Theory"?

Ohh, you are a beginner. Then don't go for it. You'll lose focus and think it very tough if you start with the research paper at the first go.

 

[George Jones]

I thought this article had an interesting discussion of the various approaches to teaching GR. Might help you choose a book in the style that suits the way you learn best. https://www.aapt.org/doorway/TGRU/articles/Moore GRArticle.pdf

Hartle and Wald both have also written articles on approaches to teaching general relativity:

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506075

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511073

 

[robphy]

I thought this article had an interesting discussion of the various approaches to teaching GR. Might help you choose a book in the style that suits the way you learn best. https://www.aapt.org/doorway/TGRU/articles/Moore GRArticle.pdf

Hartle and Wald both have also written articles on approaches to teaching general relativity:

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506075

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511073

Hartle and others (including Rai Weiss) were also at that AAPT conference "TEACHING GENERAL RELATIVITY TO UNDERGRADUATES"
https://www.aapt.org/doorway/TGRU/

It was held in 2006 at Syracuse University, when I was finishing up there.
I contributed a poster to it.
https://www.aapt.org/doorway/TGRU/posterabstracts.htm