''Students and experienced researchers will welcome
Michele Maggiore's timely and authoritative new text book [...]
excellent and useful material [...] on an important new
frontier of astronomy and of fundamental physics. I look forward to
Volume 2, and even more so to the dawn of gravitational-wave
astronomy.''
N. Turok, Nature, February 2008. -
''[...] the chosen approach is very pedagogical and
effective. The important results are introduced taking great care
in explaining the details of their derivations, and each chapter is
supplemented by a set of completely worked out exercises.
[...] I think that "Gravitational Waves" is a very good book,
and it fills a gap in the literature. [...]
It is an ideal textbook for a monographic introductory course on
gravitational waves, for graduates or advanced undergraduates,
[and] it could also be the basic reference text for researchers,
both experimentalists and theoreticians.''
G. Cella, h-The Gravitational Voice, January 2008. -
Full
review in pdf.
''The need for a textbook that treats production and detection
of GWs systematically is clear. Michele Maggiore has succeeded in
doing this in a way that is fruitful not only to the young physicist
starting to work in the field, but also to the experienced scientist
needing a reference book for everyday work.''
C. Bradaschia, Cern Courier, August 2008. -
Full
review.
''The book Gravitational Waves, Volume 1, by Michele Maggiore [...] is,
as far as I know, the first comprehensive textbook on gravitational
waves. It describes the theoretical foundations of the subject, the
known (and anticipated) sources, and the principles of detection by
resonant masses and laser interferometers. This book is a major
accomplishment, and with the promised volume 2 on astrophysical and
cosmological aspects of gravitational waves, the community of all
scientists interested in this topic will be well served. [...]
For its comprehensive coverage of the theoretical and experimental
aspects of gravitational waves, and for the high quality of its
writing, this book is a truly remarkable achievement.
I recommend it with great enthusiasm to anyone interested in this
exciting topic.''
E. Poisson, Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) 209002.
Full
review.
''It deserves to become a standard textbook in gravitation
and to be on the book-shelf of everybody who is seriously
interested in gravitational-wave astronomy''
S. Husa, General Relativity and Gravitation.
Full
review.