General Relativity reinterprets the force of gravity not as a traditional force but as a manifestation of the curvature of spacetime. Its formulation rests on a rigorous mathematical framework built ...

Dwight E. Neuenschwander: Tensor Calculus for Physics, Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2014, 248 S., geb., $45.00, ISBN: 9781421415659 Understanding tensors is essential for any physics ...

It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.

I have covered several different software packages for doing scientific computation in Linux Journal, but I haven't spent as much time describing available libraries and the kind of work that can be ...

Susskind, a physics professor at Stanford, and Cabannas, a former MIT math professor, offer an overview of Einstein’s theory of general relativity in this survey for specialists, the fourth volume of ...