Reviews for Global Structural Stability of Flows on Open Surfaces

The average rating for Global Structural Stability of Flows on Open Surfaces based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-14 00:00:00 Mary Reder A bit more poppy than I'd have liked from Cambridge University Press, but overall the best (if slim) introduction to massively high-energy stellar objects, the mid-range black hole enigma, and esoterica of general relativity (frame dragging, the importance of the Kerr metric, tachyonic jets etc). I was pleased to see Melia's not afraid to introduce time/space signatures and dilation of the metric early, and use these results to explain what other pop authors leave behind. There's a fair bit of repetition, especially for such a small volume, but this is offset by an absolutely terrific inquiry into the determinism of space dimensions and constraints placed upon them by the Hierarchy problem (incredible weakness of gravity compared to QCD/QED) -- this gives rise to the very core of the Planck energy's definition, in a stellar (pun not intended) exposition. Melia covers some extraordinary experiments in astrophysics I was unaware of -- the maser-based measurement of NGC4258's AGN mass, Jansky's accidental discovery of radio astronomy at Bell Labs (not to be confused with Penzias and Wilson, four decades later) -- and the book's cost is covered by his dense references to very current literature. ~20 beautiful color plates, most of which you'll have seen before. Amazon 2008-12-17. Found in the "Further Reading" section of Wikipedia's (fairly decent) page on quasars, this book looks good and was available cheaply used -- let's try this, players.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-17 00:00:00 Paige McKiernan Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe. Well done discussion about the most powerful and least understood objects in the universe. Learned that there is a possibility that the universe itself is a black hole and that the end of everything, and meaning everything, is 10^98 (thats a 1 with 98 0's following) years away.