Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work: His Life and Work Reissue. Updated edition - Rilegato

Ferguson, Kitty

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ISBN 10: 0593068637 ISBN 13: 9780593068632

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2011

Riassunto

Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time - a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Hawking himself and his close associates and who has a gift for translating the language of theoretical physics for non-scientists.

Twenty years ago, Kitty Ferguson's Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything became a Sunday Times bestseller and took the world by storm. She now returns to the subject to transform that short book into a hugely expanded, carefully researched, up to the minute biography, giving a rich picture of Hawking's childhood, the heartrending beginning of his struggle with Motor Neurone Disease when he was a first-year graduate student, his ever-increasing international fame, and his long personal battle for survival in pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe. Throughout she also summarizes and explains to the layman the cutting-edge science in which Hawking has been engaged.

Published with text illustrations and with photographs that cover Hawking's life from his infancy to the present, Stephen Hawking is written with the clarity and simplicity for which all Kitty Ferguson's books have been praised. The result is a captivating account of an extraordinary life and the work of a splendid mind.

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Recensione:

"Ferguson captures the very full life and work of one of the most vibrant minds of our time" (Publishers Weekly)

"Fascinating" (Observer)

"The reader is drawn on by some of the best scientific definitions, analogies, simple explanations and downright interesting writing I have ever seen" (Evening Standard)

"Ferguson deftly conveys an exciting sense of both Stephen Hawking himself and his pre-eminent role in modern-day theoretical physics... A fine introduction to Hawking's own A Brief History of Time" (Booklist)

"Fascinating... Ferguson's sympathetic and informed take on an individual who has enriched human knowledge against the odds, is an excellent summing up of [Hawking's] unique and creative contribution to both science and humanity" (George Ellis Nature Magazine)

Descrizione del libro:

A revealing new biography of Stephen Hawking by the long-time chronicler of his life and science.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0593068637
• ISBN 13: 9780593068632
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416