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- From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
- Subject: Re: Misner et al.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.035829.23056@math.ucla.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug31.222201.23107@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 03:58:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.222201.23107@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C.
- Baez) writes:
- >
- > As Segal has said of the University of Chicago, "It's not very good -
- > it's only the best there is."
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- Very true! (Phd, Chicago, 1989 :-)
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- >This may no longer be true of MTW; I like
- > Wald quite a bit. But when it came out I think it was true.
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- I took Walds class at UC out of his book when it first came out.
- Great book, and he's a pretty good teacher, too. He gets
- you all the way up to speed in GR in < 100 pages, including introductory
- material on SR and geometry.
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- --
- Barry Merriman
- UCLA Dept. of Math
- UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
- barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
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