a First Course in General Relativity

Suitable for a one-semester course in general relativity for senior undergraduates or beginning graduate students, this text clarifies the mathematical aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity without sacrificing physical understanding.

The primary objective of this book is to provide an easy approach to the basic principles of Engineering Drawing, which is one of the core subjects for undergraduate students in all branches of engineering. Further, it offers comprehensive coverage of topics required for a first course in this subject, based on the author’s years of experience in teaching this subject.

The purpose of a first course in calculus is to teach the student the basic notions of derivative and integral, and the basic techniques and applica­ tions which accompany them. The very talented students, with an ob­ vious aptitude for mathematics, will rapidly require a course in functions of one real variable, more or less as it is understood by professional is not primarily addressed to them (although mathematicians.

The concept of a graph is fundamental in mathematics since it con- veniently encodes diverse relations and facilitates combinatorial anal- ysis of many complicated counting problems. In this book, we have traced the origins of graph theory from its humble beginnings of recre- ational mathematics to its modern setting for modeling communication networks as is evidenced by the world wide web graph used by many internet search engines.