title: Tensors and Manifolds: with Applications to Mechanics and Relativity
author: Robert H. Wasserman
description: "Considering the complexity of the material, the tone is friendly; one can almost hear Wasserman lecturing. The presentation is rigorous without being pedantic. Excellent exercises. Highly recommended." --Choice<br /><br />"First, the emphasis is placed on mathematical structures and all chapters are built around them. . . Second, the text is highly interactive: problems appear all the time and problems are turned into exercises. Third, the author does not shy away from . . . sending the reader to very precise references, with page numbers. Finally, the book strikes a balance between background and advanced topics, easy and difficult material, classical and modern methods, and theory and application. . . . a valuable addition to the courses available in manifold theory and tensor analysis." --SIAM Review<br /><br />"A nice and comprehensive introduction. . .. clearly written and self-contained and, in particular, the author has succeeded in combining mathematical rigor with a certain degree of informality in a satisfactory way. . . . this work will certainly be appreciated by a wide audience, and may be recommended especially to advanced physics and mathematics students and beginning researchers." --Mathematical Reviews
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  Tensor Calculus, 
  Relativity and 
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  Cosmology 
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  Introduction to 
  TENSOR CALCULUS, 
  RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY 
   
  
  Introduction to 
  TENSOR CALCULUS, 
  RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY 
  Third Edition 
  D. F. Lawden 
  Emeritus Professor 
  University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K. 
  DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. 
  Mineola, New York
  
  Copyright 
  Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1975 by D. F Lawden 
  Copyright © 1982 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 
  All 
  rights 
  reserved. 
  Bibliographical Note 
  This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged republication of 
  the third edition of the work, originally published by John Wiley & Sons, New 
  York, in 1982. 
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  Readers of this book who would like to receive the solutions to the exercises 
  may request them from the publisher at the following e-mail address: 
  editors@doverpublications.com. 
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  Lawden, Derek F. 
  Introduction to tensor calculus, relativity, and cosmology / D.F. Lawden. — 
  3rd ed