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Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Penguin Press Science)Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Penguin Press Science) by: Richard P. Feynman, Fernando B. Moringo, William G. Wagner  Dewey Decimal Number: 531.14 EAN: 9780140284508 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0140284508 Label: Penguin Books Ltd Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: August 26, 1999 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Studio: Penguin Books Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Surely You're NOT joking, Mr FeynamnI tend to think that this book is not a good place for a beginning student (like me) to learn the modern geometrical formulation of general relativity. But the "notes" are pervaded of Feynman's spirit, they contain a number of fascinating digressions and..well, if you already know Feynman's behaviour through his books, you can't lose this! Rating:  - General relativity as a quantum gauge field theory.Feynman gave a series of lectures on gravitation at a graduate seminar at Caltech in 1962. The lectures were recorded and transcribed by Morinigo and Wagner. A very readable introduction on quantum gravity was added by the editor, Brian Hatfield (whose book on quantum field theory and strings, I also recommend.) This is the only book I've seen which develops GR from a quantum field theory point of view. Feynman's lectures show that the GR field equations result from the requirement of gauge invariance under Lorentz transformations for a massless spin-2 field (i.e graviton). This is a more fundamental approach than the usual differential geometric framework and shows what the equivalence principle really means in terms of fundamental symmetries. Highly recommended for a modern field theory viewpoint of GR.  Try searching the Internet for "Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Penguin Press Science)" or Ebay for "Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (Penguin Press Science)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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