Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

Worth and interesting concepts

This is an amazing textbook, with the clearest of explanations. I was astounded by how carefully laid out everything was; it made the material easily digestible, even though it's fairly advanced.Moreover, what makes this book such a gem for me, it's that it is the most physically intuitive book out there (Misner-Thorne-Wheeler is the geometrically most intuitive book). I studied GR before reading this, so I did not approach it as a beginner, but when I went through some of the physical discussions of some topics, I could not believe that I learned GR without this kind of physical intuition. This is delightful, as I always considered GR to be a beautiful but mostly mathematical theory (in that the physics gets lost in the equations)!

It starts with mathematics, and slowly builds up to what you need to know to work in the field of general relativity. It is well-written, and thankfully assumes very little knowledge of the subject.If you want a good story, however, and if you would like to see the connection with mechanics, I would recommend Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell by A. Zee. For me this book appeals more to physical intuition and is less mathematical.

This book asks a great deal of the reader. The material on tensors is very short and if you are not already familiar with them you will struggle. Likewise the section on one forms & dual vectors. My head was spinning after reading the material on them. Each page contains so many ideas, new material that I needed to read everything about 10 times before I could move on. In summary I found this book difficult, but then it is a difficult subject. It covers a very wide range and is certainly a comprehensive introduction to the subject. For the expert reader I think. For myself I will persevere as the book has so much of value.

Good physical explanations with good mathematical detail.All aspects well described.Some points are through and hence might be tricky if encountered for the first time in this book.

O livro parece ter a melhor abordagem pra iniciantes mas que sabem o mínimo.

La pasta tiene un acabado muy elegante, y las hojas tienen un acabado diferente, no es papel común pero no está del todo laminado. Recomendado.

De los mejores libros de GR que he visto hasta ahora.Muy recomnendable.

Was mir als Mathematiker besonders auffällt ist, dass Carroll zwar mit der Brille des Physikers schreibt, aber offenbar über ein profundes mathematisches Hintergrundwissen in Sachen Tensorrechnung, Riemannschen und Semi-Riemannschen Mannigfaltigkeiten verfügt, was man an vielen Stellen im Buch feststellt. Das Werk ist - im Unterschied zu vielen anderen Standardwerken - flüssig zu lesen. Die Anhänge sind äußerst interessant. Dem Mathematiker sind ergänzend John M. Lee "Riemannian Manifolds" und Barrett O'Neill "Semi-Riemannian Geometry - with Applications in Relativity" zu empfehlen.

Ho letto solo il primo capitolo e quindi questa recensione è sicuramente prematura. La prima impressione è che il testo sia completo e approfondito, sia dal punto di vista dell'interpretazione fisica sia da quello della formulazione matematico-geometrica. Il livello di complessità matematica è molto alto. Sono un lettore dilettante della fisica e il primo capitolo (relatività ristretta e teoria classica dei campi) sarebbe stato fuori della mia portata se non avessi già fatto delle letture sul tema (in particolare il Theoretical Minimum di Susskind). Vero è che questo capitolo, dichiara l'autore, è una rapida review di materia che si suppone già nota. Spero che i successivi adottino un approccio più didascalico.