Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the Summer School Held, 14-26 August, 1972 at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta

The 1972 Banff lectures attempted a systematic exposition of the ideas underlying recent developments in general relativity and its astronomical applications at a level accessible and useful to graduate students having some previous acquaintance with the subject. To our regret, it was not possible to include any printed record of Peebles' beautiful lectures on observational cosmology or of the many stimulating seminars on special topics contributed by the participants. What remains is never...