The phenomenal international bestseller from one of the world's greatest scientists
In 1963, Stephen Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. For thirty years he held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science.
This app/book version of Hawking's famous laymen book is just an
amazing piece of learning. This makes much more accessible and
understandable the complex and awesome topics dealt by Hawking as
he explains how our universe works. I am just in awe at how
creative he is to produce one of a kind e-book like this. The pace,
illustrations and connections of topics within the book are so
helpful and so appropriate for the new generation used to tweets
and small bites of information. You can flip over some topics when
you have some time, learn some amazing fact, and come back later
which no rush or worry about how fast you are progressing through
the book. Hope other books on complex topics are translated to this
format. And I love the updates of the latest science since the
publication of the original book. We have learned so much in the
last decade that I agree with Hawking, it is an honour to live in
this times.
*Ribozyme*
'Master of the Universe...One scientist's courageous voyage to the
frontiers of the Cosmos'
*Newsweek*
'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*
'He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an
engaging combination of clarity and wit...His is a brain of
extraordinary power'
*Observer*
'To follow such a fine mind as it exposes such great problems is an
exciting experience'
*The Sunday Times*
A central question underlies this brief but crystal-clear account of the history of physical speculation about the universe: does the universe always operate in the same manner or does it allow for divergence? That the universe is static, as once thought, eventually proved impossible to reconcile with evidence from astronomy, for how could an expanding universe follow unchanging laws of nature? Hawking, along with mathematician Roger Penrose, discovered the answer: relativity theory not only allows, but requires, a big bang. The discussion does not end therethe universe may really be static, the ``big bang'' being local history in only a part of the universebut once again Hawking has proved himself a pioneer. David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
This app/book version of Hawking's famous laymen book is just an
amazing piece of learning. This makes much more accessible and
understandable the complex and awesome topics dealt by Hawking as
he explains how our universe works. I am just in awe at how
creative he is to produce one of a kind e-book like this. The pace,
illustrations and connections of topics within the book are so
helpful and so appropriate for the new generation used to tweets
and small bites of information. You can flip over some topics when
you have some time, learn some amazing fact, and come back later
which no rush or worry about how fast you are progressing through
the book. Hope other books on complex topics are translated to this
format. And I love the updates of the latest science since the
publication of the original book. We have learned so much in the
last decade that I agree with Hawking, it is an honour to live in
this times. * Ribozyme *
'Master of the Universe...One scientist's courageous voyage to the
frontiers of the Cosmos' * Newsweek *
'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 *
'He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an
engaging combination of clarity and wit...His is a brain of
extraordinary power' * Observer *
'To follow such a fine mind as it exposes such great problems is an
exciting experience' * The Sunday Times *
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