Part of the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book was first published in 1983, and has swiftly become one of the great modern

The first book devoted to black holes in more than four dimensions, for graduate students and researchers.

A self-contained introduction to the mathematical theory of black holes.

This Brief presents in a self-contained, non-technical and illustrative fashion the state-of-the-art results and techniques for the dynamics of extremal black h