Lecture 5: Tangent Spaces ( International Winter School on Gravity and Light 2015)

As part of the worldwide celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Einstein s theory of general relativity and the International Year of Light 2015: Central lecture course by Frederic P Schuller (A thorough introduction to the theory of general relativity) introducing the mathematical and physical foundations of the theory in 24 selfcontained lectures at the International Winter School on Gravity and Light in Linz, Austria. The lectures develop the theory from first principles and aim at an audience rangi br, br,