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A Short Course in General Relativity and CosmologyAuthor(s): Reinhard Hentschke, Christian Hlbling\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030463830, 978-3030463830\nSynopsis\nUnlike most traditional introductory textbooks on relativity and cosmology that answer questions like Does accelerated expansion pull our bodies apart?, Does the presence of dark matter affect the classical tests of general relativity? in a qualitative manner, the present text is intended as a foundation, enabling students to read and understand the textbooks and many of the scientific papers on the subject. And, above all, the readers are taught and encouraged to do their own calculations, check the numbers and answer the above and other questions regarding the most exciting discoveries and theoretical developments in general relativistic cosmology, which have occurred since the early 1980s. In comparison to these intelle.