Books of Interest For Ay/Ph 259
Here are the names of the various books that I have at one time or
another passed around in class.
- Synge and Schild, Tensor Calculus. Good index intensive book.
- Schouten, Ricci Calculus. The pinnacle of index shuffling.
Look at this and weep.
- Schouten, Tensor Analysis for Physicist. The first place where
honest pictures of 1-forms and twisted 1-forms appears.
- Dava Sobel, Longitude.Nice account of the struggle to
make acceleration independent clocks, most of the problem being
bureaucrats and astronomers.
- Jan Koenderink. Solid shape.Very nice graphics.
- CTJ Dodson and T Poston.Tensor geometry.Modern tensor analysis
with lots of computer generated pictures and awful typography.
- Theodore Frankel. Gravitational Curvature. One of the few
mathematics books that uses twisted differential forms.
- S. Parrott. Relativistic Electrodynamics and Differential Geometry.
I have not read this carefully but it looks very good.