Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and the
recipient of numerous awards and honors including the presidential
Medal of Freedom. His books for the general reader include My
Brief History, the classic A Brief History of
Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby
Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, and, with Leonard
Mlodinow, A Briefer History of Time and The Grand
Design. Stephen Hawking died in 2018.
Leonard Mlodinow is a physicist and the author of Feynman’s
Rainbow, Euclid’s Window, and The Drunkard’s Walk. He lives in
Pasadena, California.
Praise for the original edition of A Brief History of Time
“[Hawking] can explain the complexities of cosmological physics
with an engaging combination of clarity and wit. . . . His is a
brain of extraordinary power.”—The New York Review of Books
“Lively and provocative . . . Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a
natural teacher’s gifts—easy, good-natured humor and an ability to
illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from
daily life.”—The New York Times
“Even as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar
ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to
unlock the secrets of the universe.”—Time
“This book marries a child’s wonder to a genius’s intellect. We
journey into Hawking’s universe while marvelling at his mind.”—The
Sunday Times (London)
“A masterful summary of what physicists now think the world is made
of and how it got that way.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Charming and lucid . . . [a book of] sunny brilliance.”—The New
Yorker
Praise for the original edition of A Brief History of Time
"[Hawking] can explain the complexities of cosmological physics
with an engaging combination of clarity and wit. . . . His is a
brain of extraordinary power."-The New York Review of Books
"Lively and provocative . . . Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a
natural teacher's gifts-easy, good-natured humor and an ability to
illustrate highly complex propositions with analogies plucked from
daily life."-The New York Times
"Even as he sits helpless in his wheelchair, his mind seems to soar
ever more brilliantly across the vastness of space and time to
unlock the secrets of the universe."-Time
"This book marries a child's wonder to a genius's intellect. We
journey into Hawking's universe while marvelling at his
mind."-The Sunday Times (London)
"A masterful summary of what physicists now think the world is made
of and how it got that way."-The Wall Street Journal
"Charming and lucid . . . [a book of] sunny brilliance."-The New
Yorker
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