Introduction to General Relativity, Cosmology and Alternative Theories of Gravitation

D. Radhakrishna Reddy is a retired Professor of Applied Mathematics at Andhra University, India. He has more than forty years of research and teaching experience, and has published more than 300 research papers on Einstein’s theory of relativity, alternative theories of gravitation, dark energy and cosmology. He served as Associate Editor of Astrophysics and Space Science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London. He is also the author of a number of books and two textbooks. Y. Aditya is presently working as Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities at GMR Institute of Technology, India. He has eight years of teaching and research experience. He is actively engaged in research work and has published more than 50 research papers on Einstein’s theory of relativity, dark energy and modified theories of gravitation.