Space-Time Structure

Cambridge Science Classics

by Erwin Schrödinger

In response to repeated requests this classic book on space-time structure by Professor Erwin Schrödinger is now available in the Cambridge Science Classics series. First published in 1950, and reprinted in 1954 and 1960, this lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation still provides valuable reading for students and research workers in the field.

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction

127 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 1985

About the author

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics. Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function.

He won the 1933 Nobel prize in physics with colleague Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

Reviews

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book defines Einstein's Theories on Gravitation in a mathematical manner, using partial differentiation and multiple integrals and matrices and other advanced things. It describes scalar densities and tensor densities, defining what they are and showing the symbols used to show it.

I didn't really understand this book, since I can't explain it well, but I did like it. I need to find a book or something that will teach me partial derivatives and stuff. Maybe then I can follow it.