General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics

In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the ''Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande'' (a consortium offour uni­ versities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the ''Springer Lecture Notes in Physics'', Volume 150, published in 1981. This text appeared in German, because there have been few modern expositions of the gen...