Excerpt from the back cover: This book will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked out problems, and exercises ...

Albert Einstein had described the special theory of relativity in 1905 ... British Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Príncipe Island off the western coast of Africa.

Years before Hubble detected cosmic expansion, Einstein had fashioned a theory, general relativity ... to me," said British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington in 1931. But evidence in its favor ...

But physicists Arthur Eddington ... to superstardom. Eddington also wrote the first English books on relativity before doing the same on Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory.

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical ... nature described by general relativity, and the only one ...