My Brief History Stephen Hawking
For the first time stephen hawking turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.
My brief history stephen hawking. A brief history of time. From the big bang to black holes is a popular science book on cosmology the study of the origin and evolution of the universe by english physicist stephen hawking. Ian sample of the guardian wrote hawking s memoir my brief history is a skip across the surface of the cambridge.
Description of the book my brief history. 9780345535283 excerpt hawking my brief history 1 childhood my father frank came from a line of tenant farmers in yorkshire england. In my brief history the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turned his gaze inwards looking for the first and only time in print at his own life and intellectual evolution.
My brief history recounts stephen hawking s improbable journey from his post war london boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity illustrated with rarely seen photographs this concise witty and candid account introduces readers to the inquisitive. My brief history stephen hawking. He was the dennis stanton avery and sally tsui wong avery director of research at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics and founder of the centre for theoretical cosmology at.
Now for the first time the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. Stephen hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Stephen william hawking 1942 2018 was the former lucasian professor of mathematics at the university of cambridge and author of a brief history of time which is an international bestseller.
Kathleen lynch black kat design. My brief history is a memoir published in 2013 by the english physicist stephen hawking the book recounts hawking s journey from his post war london boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Hawking s memoir my brief history is a skip across the surface of the cambridge cosmologist s life from his quirky upbringing in london and st albans to his latest work on the beginning of time.
Black holes astronomy i. My brief history has received modest praise from critics. Hawking stephen 1942 2.
It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers who have no prior knowledge of the universe and people who are just interested in learning something new.
