Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation Edited by Steven M. Christensen /

• Main Author: DeWitt, Bryce (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Christensen, Steven M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 826
• Subjects: Physics.; Differential geometry.; Gravitation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Differential Geometry.
• Physical Description: XII, 288 p. 10 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540369110
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;

Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford University, leaving almost 400 pages of detailed handwritten notes. Written with clarity and authority, and edited by his former student Steven Christensen, these timeless lecture notes, containing material or expositions not found in any other textbooks, are a gem to be discovered or re-discovered by anyone seriously interested in the study of gravitational physics.