Lecture 1: Topology (International Winter School on Gravity and Light 2015)

As part of the world-wide celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and the International Year of Light 2015, the Scientific Organizing Committee makes available the central 24 lectures by Frederic P Schuller. Titled “A thorough introduction to the theory of general relativity“, the lectures introduce the mathematical and physical foundations of the theory in 24 self-contained lectures. The material is developed step by step from first principles and aims at an audien