by Stephen W. Hawking, Carl Sagan · Bantam Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593015186
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«A Brief History of Time» is Stephen W. Hawking's popular science essay, published by Bantam Press in hardcover (208 pages, in English).
The work brings the big questions of cosmology to a non-specialist audience: the origin of the universe, the nature of time, black holes, and the search for a unified theory combining general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Originally published in 1988, with an introduction by Carl Sagan, within the field of popular science and cosmology.
For a general audience interested in cosmology and popular science, with no need for advanced mathematical knowledge.
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.
