Stephen Hawking

Broschiertes Buch

Black Holes and Baby Universes" and Other Essays

Beschreibung

Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces. They reveal him as scientist, man, concerned world citizen and imaginative thinker. A transcript of his conversation on "Desert Island Discs" is included.

Autor

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.

© Stewart Cohen Pictures

Zur Autorenwelt

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bantam Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 505686
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 199
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1996
• Englisch, Spanisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 126mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9780553406634
• ISBN-10: 0553406639
• Artikelnr.: 05580465

Rezensionen

Is the universe going to expand into eternity or will everything collapse in one Big Crunch in which physical laws become meaningless? Stephen Hawking, author of the phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time, sheds light on the darkest regions of space and time and considers an extraordinary array of possibilities for our future? The Times