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R. d'Inverno, Introducing Einstein's Relativity.
This is a very straightforward description, as it turns out, the first part of the course follows it
quite closely. (d'I). (S-LEN 530.11 N21;2)
E.W. Kolb and M.S. Turner, The Early Universe.
This is a very good book for cosmology and it also deals with solutions to the Einstein equations. Not
very much on relativity itself. (KT).
P.J.E. Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology.
Quite difficult to follow when discussing cosmology because it puts a heavy emphasis on the astrono
mical evidence, but has quite a nice introduction to general relativity. (P).
G. 't Hooft, Introduction to General Relativity.
Nice account, a bit intimadating because it is so precise. ('tH).
S. Weinberg, Gravitation and cosmology: principles and applications of the general theory of relativity.
Excellant book: 1. 523.01 L21;1 (Counter Reserve) 2. S-LEN 523.01 L21;2 (Lending) 3. S-LEN 523.01 L21;3 (Lending). (W).
W. Rindler, Essential relativity : special, general, and cosmological.Very wordy, little detail, maybe useful background reading. (R). (S-LEN 530.11 K95;2).
C.W. Misner, K.P. Thorne and J.A. Wheeler, Gravitation.
Famously useless but impressively complete classic text. (MTW).
A. Liddle, An introduction to modern cosmology
Very readable and straight forward, at a slightly lower level than this course, but still useful. Derives RWF equations without using GR, we don't do that, we do use GR. (L). Counter reserve, reserve number 36.
M.S. Madsen, The dynamic cosmos
Similar level to Liddle, very straightforward, good on inflation. (M). HL-183-440.
J.E. Lidsey I also found some lecture notes on the web by this J.E. Lidsey of Queen Mary UL, I emailed him to ask if I could point the notes out to you, people are usually very good about this, but he didn't reply and the lecture notes have subsequently been password protected!
Sean Carroll An excellant set of on-line notes which is available on the arXiV:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019 (C)
The history of Kaluza-Klein theory. Our own Lochlain O'Raifeartaigh wrote a history of Kaluza-Klein and gauge theory, beyond the scope of what we did in the course, but maybe interesting to glance through. It is available here from the ArXiV. The orginal reference for the Kaluza-Klein monopole is Magnetic monopole in Kaluza-Klein theory, David J. Gross and Malcolm J. Perry, Nucl. Phys. B226 (1983) 29.