Stephen Hawking

The Nature of Space and Time is a book that documents a debate on physics and the philosophy of physics between the British theoretical physicists Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking . The book was published by Princeton University Press in 1996. The event that is featured in the book took place in 1994 at the …

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once …

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy é uma compilação de textos científicos editados e com comentários do físico teórico britânico Stephen Hawking. A versão original do livro foi publicada em 2002 pela Running Press. No livro constam textos de Nicolau Copérnico, Galileu Galilei, …

Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world’s greatest minds: a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine what’s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be …

O Universo numa Casca de Noz é um livro sobre física teórica escrito pelo renomado físico Stephen Hawking. Voltado explicitamente ao público leigo, apresenta, de forma clara e sem o uso de matemática, as principais ideias antes e hoje debatidas pelos físicos teóricos, abrangendo desde o microcosmo quântico até o …

George e o Segredo do Universo é um livro que combina aventuras diversas e envolventes com fascinantes explicações científicas sobre o universo e os planetas. Escrito por Stephen Hawking, um dos principais cientistas da atualidade, e sua filha, a jornalista e escritora Lucy Hawking, incluindo as idéias mais recentes …

Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a popular science book by English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. This book is a collection of essays and lectures written by Hawking, mainly about the makeup of black holes, and why they might be nodes from which other universes grow. Hawking discusses black hole …

The Grand Design is a popular-science book written by physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow and published by Bantam Books in 2010. It argues that invoking God is not necessary to explain the origins of the universe, and that the Big Bang is a consequence of the laws of physics alone. In response to …