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According to The Orange Grove, "This free textbook by Harvard Professor Shlomo Sternberg provides a one semester course at the undergraduate level giving an introduction to Riemannian geometry and its principal physical application, Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The background assumed is a good grounding in linear algebra and in advanced calculus, preferably in the language of differential forms. Contents: 1) The Principal Curvatures. 2) Rules of Calculus. 3) Levi-Civita Connections. 4) The Bundle of Frames. 5) Connections on Principal Bundles. 6) Gauss's lemma. 7) Special Relativity. 8) Die Grundlagen der Physik. 9) Submersions. 10) Petrov types. 11) Star."

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