The recommended textbook is:
- A. Zee, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press, 2013
I do not plan to follow it closely but since it was recommended for 225A I will try to refer to the relevant chapter as we move on.
The following were put on book reserves at the S&E library:
- Sean Carroll, Spacetime and geometry : an introduction to general relativity, San Francisco, Addison Wesley, 2004
- Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne [and] John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, San Francisco, W. H. Freeman, 1973
- Robert M. Wald, General relativity, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984
- S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The large scale structure of space-time, Cambridge University Press, 1973
- Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and cosmology: principles and applications of the general theory of relativity, New York, Wiley 1972
- N.D. Birrell and P.C.W. Davies, Quantum fields in curved space, Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984
- Phillip James Edwin Peebles, Principles of physical cosmology, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993
- Phillip James Edwin Peebles, Physical cosmology, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971
- Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner, The early universe, Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1990
- Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner, editors, The Early universe-reprints, Redwood City, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Advanced Book Program, 1988
- Scott Dodelson, Modern cosmology, San Diego, CA; London: Academic Press (Elsevier), 2003
- A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry / Michael Spivak Berkeley : Publish or Perish, inc., 1979
- Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, The nature of space and time, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996
- Bernard F. Schutz, A first course in general relativity, Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985
- Bernard F. Schutz, Geometrical methods of mathematical physics, Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980
The following were not put on book reserves: