I bought this book because this is a more understandable book than the Chandrasekhar opus. However, it doesn't get nearly as deep as does Chandrasekhar either. I am a physicist, and I happen to be working on a problem using the Viral Theorem for which I need more info than supplied by Gold stein. I am not willing to slog through Chandrasekhar (Maybe I'm not smart enough for the Chandrasekhar book). Note that the writing/typesetting of this book predates word processing, and it shows. The main pluses for me are two. 1. Collins does a good job of expanding the Gold stein derivation of the Viral Theorem to its integral form. 2. Collin's enthusiasm for the field of Astrophysics is apparent.
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