TY - BOOK AU - Ortin Tomas TI - Gravity and strings SN - 0-521-82475-3 U1 - 530.14 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - CUP KW - Quantum gravity KW - String models N2 - In Part I, the foundations are traced back to the very early special-relativistic field theories of gravity, showing how such theories lead to general relativity. Gauge theories of gravity are then discussed and used to introduce supergravity theories. I ER -