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Based on lectures given at a summer school on computer algebra, the book provides a didactic description of the facilities available in three computor algebra systems - MAPLE, REDUCE and SHEEP - for performing calculations in the algebra-intensive field of general relativity. With MAPLE and REDUCE, two widespread great-purpose systems, the reader is shown how to use currently available packages to perform calculations with respect to tetrads, co-ordinate systems, and Poincare' gauge theory. The section on SHEEP and Stensor, being the first published book on these systems, explains how to use these systems to tackle a wide range of calculations with respect to tackle a wide range of calculations in general relativity, including the manipulation of indicial formulae. For the researcher in general relativity, the book therefore promises a wide overview of the facilities available in computer algebra to lessen the burden of the lengthy, error-prone calculations involved in their research.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Physics Relativity physics

• Full title: Algebraic Computing in General Relativity
• Subtitle: Lecture Notes from the First Brazilian School on Computer Algebra Vol. 2
• Author: Malcolm MacCallum, J. E. F. Skea, R.G. McLenaghan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 396
• EAN: 9780198536468
• ISBN: 0198536461
• ID: 04527477
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 722 g
• Dimensions: 11 × 11 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 1994

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