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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: P. D. d'Eath
Title: Black holes - gravitational interactions
Additional book information: Oxford Scientific Publications, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, 286 + xii, ISBN 0-19-851479-4, $80.00$

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M. Davis, R. Ruffini, W.H. Press, R.H. Price, Gravitational radiation from a particle falling radially into a Schwarschild black hole, Physical Review Letters 27 (1971), 1466.
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L.L. Smarr, Space-times generated by computer: Black holes with gravitational radiation, Eighth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 302 (1977a), 569.
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-, Gravitational radiation from distant encounters and from head-on collisions of black holes: The zero frequency limit, Physical Review D15 (1977b), 2069.

Review Information:

Reviewer: Richard A. Matzner
Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Email: richard@ricci.ph.utexas.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 189-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00743-5
Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society