Hawking Lectures: Black Holes, Baby Universes, and Other Wonders

Author: Stephen Hawking
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Stephen Hawking is the author of A Brief History of Time. The book has spent over 100 weeks on bestseller lists and has sold more than 5.5 million copies, translated into 33 languages. He is also the editor of A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes. He currently holds the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a position once held by Isaac Newton. This is a book about the universe and one of its explorers. The explorer is none other than the author himself, Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University. His groundbreaking theories have completely transformed humanity's understanding of the universe. The evolution of the universe has given rise to life, thought, and wisdom. The universe to life is like a mother to an infant. If we live a bit more abstractly, for a moment forgetting the boredom of the world, we can read truth, goodness, and beauty from this great book of the universe.