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by mhh__ 411 days ago
The thing with MTW is that it's so big that it's quite hard to really mull over it (for me at least).

it's a book that I can imagine reading a lot in a very quiet world (i.e. basically a dorm or library before phones or computers) but it's very hard to actually get my teeth into it without that.
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kurthr 411 days ago
Yeah, unless you're taking a class like ph236 covering the material it's just absurd.

I hadn't realized it, but it looks like this new book is for ph136 the junior level (1st year grad) general rel prep class.

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~esp/ph136b/text.html

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mhh__ 411 days ago
"General relativity for the gifted amateur" just came out by the way. I suspect an instant classic. I am very rusty so shall be going through it.
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