肖恩·卡羅爾(Sean M. Carroll)是美國加州理工學(xué)院的理論物理學(xué)家,主要從事宇宙學(xué)、場論、量子力學(xué)和引力的研究??_爾博士畢業(yè)于哈佛大學(xué),曾在麻省理工學(xué)院、加州大學(xué)圣芭芭拉分校和芝加哥大學(xué)任教。他是美國物理學(xué)會的杰出會士(APS Fellow),并曾被評為美國國家科學(xué)基金會的杰出講師(NSF Distinguished Lecturer),他獲得過古根海姆獎(Guggenheim Fellowship)和美國物理聯(lián)合會的安德魯·杰曼特獎(Andrew Gemant Award)等??_爾還熱衷于大眾科學(xué)傳播,他在TED及各種知名科普電視節(jié)目上做演說,經(jīng)常在《紐約時報》《華爾街日報》《自然》《科學(xué)美國人》《新科學(xué)人》《天空與望遠鏡》等報刊上發(fā)表科普文章,并著有《從永恒到此刻》(From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time)、《尋找希格斯粒子》(The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World)、《大圖景:論生命的起源、意義和宇宙本身》(The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself)、《隱藏的宇宙》(Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime)等科普書。
圖書目錄
Preface 1 - Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime 2 - Manifolds 3 - Curvature 4 - Gravitation 5 - The Schwarzschild Solution 6 - More General Black Holes 7 - Perturbation Theory and Gravitational Radiation 8 - Cosmology 9 - Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime APPENDIXES Appendix A - Maps between Manifolds Appendix B - Diffeomorphisms and Lie Derivatives Appendix C - Submanifolds Appendix D - Hypersurfaces Appendix E - Stokes's Theorem Appendix F - Geodesic Congruences Appendix G - Conformal Transformations Appendix H - Conformal Diagrams Appendix I - The Parallel Propagator Appendix J - Noncoordinate Bases Bibliography