by Stephen Hawking · Transworld Pub · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553175219
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«A Brief History of Time» is Stephen Hawking's popular science essay, published by Transworld Pub in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Stephen Hawking raises the big questions of cosmology, such as whether time had a beginning or whether the universe is infinite, and examines theories from Newton to Einstein. The book covers the physics of black holes, the Big Bang and quantum mechanics, culminating in the search for a unified theory that explains the universe.
Introduction by Carl Sagan. 1995 edition of a work originally published in 1988 and shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 1989.
For readers curious about cosmology and physics, both students and the general public.
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
