狄拉克的这本《广义相对论》是一本短小精悍的介绍广义相对论入门的教程，对想了解该学科的学生十分有用。全书分为三十五个小节，内容包括：狭义相对论；斜轴；曲线坐标；非张量；曲线空间；平行移动；Christoffel符号；测地线；测地线的定态性质；共变微分；曲线张量；平坦空间条件；牛顿逼近；引力红移；Schwarzchild解；黑洞；张量密度；Gauss和Stokes定理；调和坐标轴；电磁场；爱因斯坦方程的修正等。每小节介绍一个论题，内容浅显易懂，过渡自然流畅。

1.Special Relativity

2.Oblique Axes

3.Curvilinear Coordinates

4.Nontensors

5.Curved Space

6.Parallel Displacement

7.Christoffel Symbols

8.Geodesics

9.The Stationary Property of Geodesics

10.Covariant Differentiation

11.The Curvature Tensor

12.The Condition for Flat Space

13.The Bianci Relations

14.The Ricci Tensor

15.Einstein's Law of Gravitation

16.The Newtonian Approximation

17.The Gravitational Red Shift

18.The Schwarzchild Solution

19.Black Holes

20.Tensor Densities

21.Gauss and Stokes Theorems

22.Harmonic Coordinates

23.The Electromagnetic Field

24.Modification of the Einstein Equations by the Presence of Matter

25.The Material Energy Tensor

26.The Gravitational Action Principle

27.The Action for a Continuous Distribution of Matter

28.The Action for the Electromagnetic Field

29.The Action for Charged Matter

30.The Comprehensive Action Principle

31.The Pseudo-Energy Tensor of the Gravitational Field

32.Explicit Expression for the Pseudo-Tensor

33.Gravitational Waves

34.The Polarization of Gravitational Waves

35.The Cosmological Term

Index