The Black Hole, Twenty-Five Years After

ISBN-13: 9789810233419 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str.

Claudio Teitelboim;Centro De Estudios Cientificos De Santia; Jorge Zanelli

Opis

This volume contains a series of lectures presented at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago to celebrate John Archibald Wheeler's invention of the term "black hole" a quarter of a century ago. In 11 lucid articles, a distinguished group of world experts discuss current issues in black hole physics, ranging from epistemological considerations to recent developments connecting black hole thermodynamics and string theory.