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My Brief History

My Brief History

by Stephen Hawking
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/09/2013

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe.

Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. "My Brief History" recounts Stephen Hawking s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity.

Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.

Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece "A Brief History of Time" one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.

Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, "My Brief History" opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking s personal cosmos."

ISBN:
9780345535283
9780345535283
Category:
Autobiography: science
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-09-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
207x145x17mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and was the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller.

His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravitation, with W Israel.

Among the popular books Stephen Hawking has published are his best seller A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and My Brief History.

His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe and The Universe In A Nutshell.

Stephen Hawking died in March 2018.

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