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The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
by Chandrasekhar, S
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0198512910
- ISBN 13
- 9780198512912
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E-264: Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1983. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford University Press, New York. 1983. 668 pgs. Second Printing. International Series of Monographs on Physics No. 69. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This volume has become one of the modern classics of relativity theory. When it was written in 1983 there was little physical evidence for the existence of black holes. This treatise is devoted to the mathematical theory of the space-times surrounding the black holes of nature. The principal chapters deal with the Schwarzchild solution, describing static, spherically symmetric black holes. The text features illustrations of the various classes of geodesics. EB; International Series Of Monographs On Physics; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches; 668 pages .
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- Title
- The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
- Author
- Chandrasekhar, S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0198512910
- ISBN 13
- 9780198512912
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- E-264
- Date Published
- 1983
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