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Author(s): Theodore Frankel
Title: Gravitational curvature, an introduction to Einstein's theory
Additional book information: W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, California, 1979, xviii + 172 pp., $8.95. ISBN 0-7167-1062-5

Author(s): Hans Stephani
Title: General relativity, an introduction to the theory of the gravitational field
Additional book information: (edited by John Stewart; translated from German by Martin Pollock and John Stewart) Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, New York, 1982, xvi + 298 pp., $49.50. ISBN 0-521-24008-5

Author(s): Robert M. Wald
Title: General relativity
Additional book information: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1984, xiii + 491 pp., $50.00 HB; $30.00 PB. ISBN 0-266-87033-2

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Reviewer(s):
Andrzej Trautman

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1986), 152-158.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1986-15425-X
PII: S 0273-0979(1986)15425-X

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