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# Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

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Review: Excellent book for self-study of General Relativity - Sean Carroll is a thoughtful cosmologist offering remarkable insights into contemporary physics and cosmology in his writings about time and general relativity. This book is one any of us who are not expert but want to develop at least an intuition about GR can use. Of those I've tried, including the respected weighty Gravity by Wheeler, this is far more accessible and ultimately effective. A small complaint, not about the book or its content, but about desertcart placing an adhesive sticker on the back. It spoiled a perfect tome, and some of the glue still remains on my copy. It is disrespectful of the book and the buyer to treat a new book this way, making it used and damaged even before shipping.
Review: One of the best quite advanced textbook in general relativity... - This is an outstanding textbook on general relativity. It's very detailed, well written and the order of the topics is very well chosen, covering a wide range of themes. The level is appropriate to graduate student, with a quite decent mathematical background. In particular, the first chapter is a review of special relativity: a brief but clear summary, useful to become familiar with the use of the 4-vector notation, too. The second and third chapters are committed to manifolds and curvature, and you have to learn the fundaments of differential geometry. The chapters from fourth to seventh are focused on the "real" general relativity, from Einstein's equation to gravitational waves: this is a quite advanced dissertation, and I think it is necessary to have a basic background from an introductory book. The last two chapters are an introduction to cosmology (brief, but pretty good) and an introduction to quantum field theory in curved spacetime (but I never read this chapter, sorry!). Remark that the book contains ten (10!) very useful appendixes on additional topics that are not debated in the ordinary chapters: they are a good extension to examine in depth some themes (in particular on a second reading). Very good binding and hardcover: it's durable and solid, with a good value for money.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #42,159 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #20 in Relativity Physics (Books) #46 in Cosmology (Books) #82 in Science & Mathematics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (491) |
| Dimensions  | 7.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 1108488390 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1108488396 |
| Item Weight  | 2.8 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 516 pages |
| Publication date  | August 8, 2019 |
| Publisher  | Cambridge University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book for self-study of General Relativity
*by A***R on December 19, 2024*

Sean Carroll is a thoughtful cosmologist offering remarkable insights into contemporary physics and cosmology in his writings about time and general relativity. This book is one any of us who are not expert but want to develop at least an intuition about GR can use. Of those I've tried, including the respected weighty Gravity by Wheeler, this is far more accessible and ultimately effective. A small complaint, not about the book or its content, but about Amazon placing an adhesive sticker on the back. It spoiled a perfect tome, and some of the glue still remains on my copy. It is disrespectful of the book and the buyer to treat a new book this way, making it used and damaged even before shipping.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best quite advanced textbook in general relativity...
*by J***N on November 24, 2015*

This is an outstanding textbook on general relativity. It's very detailed, well written and the order of the topics is very well chosen, covering a wide range of themes. The level is appropriate to graduate student, with a quite decent mathematical background. In particular, the first chapter is a review of special relativity: a brief but clear summary, useful to become familiar with the use of the 4-vector notation, too. The second and third chapters are committed to manifolds and curvature, and you have to learn the fundaments of differential geometry. The chapters from fourth to seventh are focused on the "real" general relativity, from Einstein's equation to gravitational waves: this is a quite advanced dissertation, and I think it is necessary to have a basic background from an introductory book. The last two chapters are an introduction to cosmology (brief, but pretty good) and an introduction to quantum field theory in curved spacetime (but I never read this chapter, sorry!). Remark that the book contains ten (10!) very useful appendixes on additional topics that are not debated in the ordinary chapters: they are a good extension to examine in depth some themes (in particular on a second reading). Very good binding and hardcover: it's durable and solid, with a good value for money.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good GR Book
*by J***H on June 30, 2025*

I bought this book to teach myself GR as it was the required text for the MIT opencourseware lectures. I would say the book flows decently well, but some basic concepts are left out, which are covered in the MIT lectures on YouTube. Additionally, I think a review of Altland's Mathematics for Physicists, just a few of the early linear algebra sections, is helpful to give a more formal explanation of the math that is used.

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