Stephen Hawking

Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:“[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“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) “Masterful.”— The Wall Street Journal“Charming and lucid . . . [A book of] sunny brilliance.”— The New Yorker“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.”— TimeFrom the Inside Flap"A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world--observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why "A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.Sobre el autor: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.

De dónde surgió el cosmos? ¿Hubo un principio en el tiempo? ¿El Universo es infinito? Hawking nos da la respuesta. En 1988 apareció un libro que iba a cambiar de arriba abajo nuestra concepción del universo y que se convirtió en uno de los mayores bestsellers científicos:Historia del tiempo, de Stephen Hawking, el mayor genio del siglo XX después de Einstein.