Today, 16th February 2023, sees the official publication of a special 50th anniversary edition classic monograph on the large scale structure of space-time by Stephen Hawking and George Ellis. My copy of a standard issue of the book is on the left; the special new edition is on the right. The book has been reprinted many times, which testifies to its status as an authoritative treatise. I don’t have the new edition, actually. I just stole the picture from the Facebook page of George Ellis, with whom I have collaborated on a book (though not one as significant as the one shown above).
This book is by no means an introductory text but is full of interesting insights for people who have studied general relativity before. Stephen Hawking left us some years ago, of course, but George is still going strong so let me take this opportunity to congratulate him on the publication of this special anniversary edition!
P.S It struck me while writing this post that I’ve been working as a cosmologist in various universities for getting on for about 35 years and I’ve never taught a course on general relativity. As I’ll be retiring pretty soon it’s looking very likely that I never will…
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