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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity by Sean Carroll

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3.0

This is a pretty good textbook on the mathematical physics underlying the theory of general relativity. Despite a consistent attempt to explain the significance of each idea, there are large numbers of new concepts, and of notation conventions and shortcuts, which make it harder to read (for someone like myself whose background is pure mathematics rather than physics) than it otherwise could be. Deserves to be read with more thoroughness than I had time to give it - taking notes while reading would have certainly made it easier to follow.
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