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In this introduction we first sketch why Einstein was soon convinced that gravitation has no place in the framework of special relativity. Then we give a broad outline of general relativity (GR) as a profound theory of gravitation, and of its major applications and successes. It is now widely recognized that GR is a non-Abelian gauge theory of a special type, in that it has a common geometrical structure with the gauge theories of particle physics.
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Textbooks on General Relativity: Numerical Relativity
T.W. Baumgarte, T.L. Shapiro, Numerical Relativity (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010)
M. Alcubierre, Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity (Oxford University Press, London, 2008)
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N. Straumann, Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 523, 488 (2011)
L. O’Raifeartaigh, N. Straumann, Rev. Mod. Phys. 72, 1 (2000)
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Straumann, N. (2013). Introduction. In: General Relativity. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5410-2_1
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