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== Further reading == === Popular books === * {{Citation|ref=none|last=Einstein|first=A.|author-link=Albert Einstein|title=Relativity: The Special and the General Theory|title-link=Relativity: The Special and the General Theory|location=Berlin|date=1916|isbn=978-3-528-06059-6}}{{clarify|reason=Surely Einstein 1916 had a German title published without an ISBN; pick one edition and cite that; don't jam multiple editions into a singe template; name the publisher;|date=December 2024}} * {{Citation|ref=none|last=Geroch|first= R.|author-link=Robert Geroch| title=General Relativity from A to B|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date=1981|isbn=978-0-226-28864-2}} * {{Citation|ref=none|author=Lieber, Lillian|author-link=Lillian Lieber| title=The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Paul Dry Books, Inc.|date=2008|isbn=978-1-58988-044-3}} * {{Citation |ref=none |author-link=Bernard F. Schutz |last=Schutz |first=Bernard F. |contribution=Gravitational radiation |editor-last=Murdin |editor-first=Paul |title=Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics |date=2001 |publisher=Institute of Physics Pub. |isbn=978-1-56159-268-5}} *{{Cite book|ref=none|title=Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy|title-link=Black Holes and Time Warps|last1=Thorne|first1=Kip|last2=Hawking|first2=Stephen|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=1994|isbn=0-393-03505-0|location=New York|author-link=Kip Thorne}} * {{Citation|ref=none|author=Wald, Robert M.|author-link=Robert Wald|title=Space, Time, and Gravity: the Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date=1992|isbn=978-0-226-87029-8}} * {{Citation|ref=none|author-link=John Archibald Wheeler|last1=Wheeler|first1=John|last2=Ford|first2=Kenneth|date=1998|title=Geons, Black Holes, & Quantum Foam: a life in physics|isbn=978-0-393-31991-0|location=New York|publisher=W. W. Norton}} === Beginning undergraduate textbooks === *{{cite book |author=Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat |author-link=Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat |title=Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes, and Cosmology |year=2014 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780191936500 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/56195}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author1=Taylor, Edwin F.|author2=Wheeler, John Archibald|title=Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity|publisher=Addison Wesley|date=2000|isbn=978-0-201-38423-9}} === Advanced undergraduate textbooks === *{{cite book |last=Crowell |first=Ben |title=General Relativity |year=2020 |url=https://lightandmatter.com/genrel/}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last= Dirac|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Dirac|title=General Theory of Relativity|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=1996|isbn=978-0-691-01146-2}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last1=Gron|first1=O.|last2=Hervik|first2=S.| title=Einstein's General theory of Relativity|publisher=Springer|date=2007|isbn=978-0-387-69199-2}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Hartle, James B.|author-link=James Hartle|title=Gravity: an Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity|location=San Francisco|publisher=Addison-Wesley|date=2003|isbn=978-0-8053-8662-2}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=[[Lane P. Hughston|Hughston, L. P.]]|author2=Tod, K. P.|title=Introduction to General Relativity|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1991|isbn=978-0-521-33943-8}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=d'Inverno, Ray|title=Introducing Einstein's Relativity|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1992|isbn=978-0-19-859686-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/introducingeinst0000dinv}} *{{cite book|ref=none|last=Ludyk|first=Günter|title=Einstein in Matrix Form|date=2013|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin|isbn= 978-3-642-35797-8 |edition=1st}} *{{Citation|ref=none|first=Christian|last=Møller|title=The Theory of Relativity|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1955|orig-date=1952|url=https://archive.org/details/theoryofrelativi029229mbp|oclc=7644624}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Moore, Thomas A|title=A General Relativity Workbook|publisher=University Science Books|date=2012|isbn=978-1-891389-82-5}} *{{Citation |ref=none |author-link=Bernard F. Schutz |author=Schutz, B. F. |title=A First Course in General Relativity |edition=Second |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2009 |bibcode=2009fcgr.book.....S |isbn=978-0-521-88705-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/firstcourseingen00bern_0}} === Graduate textbooks === *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Carroll, Sean M. |author-link=Sean M. Carroll |title=Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity |location=San Francisco |publisher=Addison-Wesley |date=2004 |bibcode=2004sgig.book.....C |isbn=978-0-8053-8732-2}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last=Grøn|first=Øyvind |author-link=Øyvind Grøn| author2=Hervik, Sigbjørn|title=Einstein's General Theory of Relativity|location=New York|publisher=Springer|date=2007|isbn=978-0-387-69199-2}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Landau, Lev D.|author-link=Lev Landau|author2= Lifshitz, Evgeny F.| author2-link=Evgeny Lifshitz|title=The Classical Theory of Fields (4th ed.)|location=London|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|date=1980|isbn=978-0-7506-2768-9}} *{{Cite book|title=Foundations of General Relativity: From Einstein to Black Holes|last=Landsman|first=Klaas|publisher=Radboud University Press|year=2021|isbn=9789083178929|url=https://books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/rup/catalog/book/foundations_of_general_relativity}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Stephani, Hans|title=General Relativity: An Introduction to the Theory of the Gravitational Field|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1990|bibcode=1990grit.book.....S |isbn=978-0-521-37941-0}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author=Charles W. Misner |author2=Kip S. Thorne |author3=John Archibald Wheeler |author3-link=John Archibald Wheeler |author2-link=Kip S. Thorne |author-link=Charles W. Misner| title=Gravitation | title-link=Gravitation (book) |publisher=W. H. Freeman, Princeton University Press |date=1973 |isbn=0-7167-0344-0}} * {{Citation|ref=none|author = R.K. Sachs | author2= H. Wu | title = General Relativity for Mathematicians | publisher=Springer-Verlag | date = 1977 |bibcode = 1977grm..book.....S | isbn=1-4612-9905-5 | author-link= Rainer K. Sachs}} * {{cite book |last=Wald |first=Robert M. |title=General Relativity |title-link=General Relativity (book) |publisher=University of Chicago Press |publication-place=Chicago |date=1984 |isbn=0-226-87032-4 |oclc=10018614 |author-link=Robert Wald |ref=none}} === Specialists' books === *{{Cite book|ref=none|title=The Large Scale Structure of Space-time|title-link=The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time|last1=Hawking|first1=Stephen|last2=Ellis|first2=George|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1975|isbn=978-0-521-09906-6|author-link=Stephen Hawking|author-link2=George F. R. Ellis}} *{{Cite book|ref=none|title=A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics|last=Poisson|first=Eric|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-521-53780-3|author-link=Eric Poisson}} === Journal articles === *{{Citation|ref=none|last=Einstein|first=Albert|author-link=Albert Einstein|title=Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie|journal=Annalen der Physik|volume=49|issue=7|date=1916|pages=769–822|doi= 10.1002/andp.19163540702|bibcode= 1916AnP...354..769E|url= https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol6-doc/311}} See also [https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol6-trans/158 English translation at Einstein Papers Project] *{{Citation|ref=none|last1=Flanagan|first1=Éanna É.|first2=Scott A.|last2=Hughes|title=The basics of gravitational wave theory|journal=New J. Phys.|volume=7|issue=1|date=2005|page=204|doi= 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/204|doi-access=free|arxiv=gr-qc/0501041|bibcode= 2005NJPh....7..204F}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last1=Landgraf|first1=M.|first2=M.|last2=Hechler|first3=S.|last3=Kemble|date=2005|title=Mission design for LISA Pathfinder|journal=Class. Quantum Grav.|volume=22|issue=10|pages=S487–S492|arxiv= gr-qc/0411071|doi= 10.1088/0264-9381/22/10/048|bibcode= 2005CQGra..22S.487L|s2cid=119476595}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last=Nieto|first=Michael Martin|title=The quest to understand the Pioneer anomaly|journal=Europhysics News|volume=37|issue=6|date=2006|pages=30–34|arxiv= gr-qc/0702017|doi= 10.1051/epn:2006604|doi-access=free|bibcode= 2006ENews..37f..30N|url= http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2006/06/epn06604.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924004350/http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2006/06/epn06604.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=live}} *{{Citation|ref=none|author-link=Irwin I. Shapiro|last1=Shapiro|first1= I. I.|last2=Pettengill|first2=Gordon|last3=Ash|first3=Michael|last4=Stone|first4=Melvin|last5=Smith|first5=William|last6=Ingalls|first6=Richard|last7=Brockelman|first7=Richard|title=Fourth test of general relativity: preliminary results|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett.|volume=20|issue=22|pages=1265–1269|date=1968|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevLett.20.1265|bibcode= 1968PhRvL..20.1265S}} *{{Citation|ref=none|last1=Valtonen|first1= M. J.|last2=Lehto|first2=H. J.|last3=Nilsson|first3=K.|last4=Heidt|first4=J.|last5=Takalo|first5=L. O.|last6=Sillanpää|first6=A.|last7=Villforth|first7=C.|last8=Kidger|first8=M.|display-authors=etal|title=A massive binary black-hole system in OJ 287 and a test of general relativity|journal=Nature|volume=452|issue=7189|pages=851–853|date=2008|doi= 10.1038/nature06896|pmid= 18421348|bibcode= 2008Natur.452..851V|arxiv= 0809.1280|s2cid=4412396}}
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