Cracking the Einstein code: relativity and the birth of black hole physics, with an afterword by Roy Kerr/

Main Author: Melia, Fulvio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009
Subjects:
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300 |a xi, 137 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-131) and index. 
505 0 |a Einstein's code -- Space and time -- Gravity -- Four pillars and a prayer -- An unbreakable code -- Roy Kerr -- The Kerr solution -- Black hole -- The tower -- New Zealand -- Kerr in the Cosmos -- Future breakthrough. 
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