PHYS 515 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Textbooks

This course will mainly follow Sean M. Carroll "Spacetime and Geometry" and it is a required textbook. You are strongly encouraged to take notes during the lectures as some material is drawn from other references. All required and recommended textbooks listed below are available, e.g., at UIUC's libraries or can be ordered at the Illini bookstore.

 

Required textbooks:

  1. Sean M. Carroll, "Spacetime and Geometry", Cambridge University Press, 2019

Recommended additional textbooks:

  1. B. Schutz, "A first course in general relativity", 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2009
  2. C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne and J. A. Wheeler, "Gravitation", W.H. Freeman, 1973
  3. P. T. Chrusciel, "Elements of general relativity", Birkhäuser, 2019
  4. M. Maggiore, "Gravitational Waves", Oxford University Press, 2008
  5. R. M. Wald, "General Relativity", University of Chicago Press, 1984

Further reading:

An earlier version of Sean Carroll's textbook is available as lecture notes here.

If you wish to read about the latest developments physics, you can find open-access preprints of scientific articles on the arxiv.