The Black Hole, 25 Years After

Comprises 12 lectures delivered at the Centro de Estudios Cientfficos de Santiago, at the Fifth Summer Meeting on Quantum Mechanics of fundamental Systems, in 1994. Topics include the path integral formulation of gravitational thermodynamics; string black holes; the black hole interior; the horizon operator approach to black hole quantization; action and entropy in black holes; speculations about black hole entropy in string theory; and black hole quantum mechanics (four lectures by Frank Wilczek). No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.