Hermann Weyl’s Space Time Matter

04Sep07

The blurb says that Nature calls this book “The standard treatise on the general theory of relativity”. I’m only 42 pages into it but I’m ready to vouch that it’s the most outstanding physics/math text I’ve encountered. I’m a fan of verbal exposition over terse mathematics, as long as said verbal exposition is accompanied by sufficiently rigorous mathematics. And Weyl has it just right. The only gripe I have is that the typesetting is iffy enough that sometimes you can’t tell if something is a superscript or a subscript. But that’s a small inconvenience for a great education.

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