Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology (Paperback)
暫譯: 時空、幾何學、宇宙學（平裝本）

William L. Burke (1941-96) was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of two books: Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology and Applied Differential Geometry. Burke gained his baccalaureate at California Institute of Technology in 1963. His doctorate was supervised by leading physicists Richard Feynman and John Wheeler. Burke discovered an aspect of gravitation overlooked by Einstein, which was named the "Burke Potential." He became a full professor at UCSC in 1988. A rising star of the new physics, his life was cut short by injuries suffered from an automobile accident.

威廉·L·伯克（William L. Burke，1941-1996）是加州大學聖克魯斯分校的天文學、天體物理學和物理學教授。他是兩本書的作者：《時空、幾何、宇宙學》（Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology）和《應用微分幾何》（Applied Differential Geometry）。伯克於1963年在加州理工學院獲得學士學位。他的博士學位由著名物理學家理查德·費曼（Richard Feynman）和約翰·惠勒（John Wheeler）指導。伯克發現了愛因斯坦所忽略的引力的一個方面，這一發現被稱為「伯克勢」（Burke Potential）。他於1988年成為加州大學聖克魯斯分校的正教授。作為新物理學的冉冉升起的明星，他的生命因一場汽車事故而過早結束。