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The Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking

  • 132 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 2002
  • 22 editions
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1 About this book

A series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the time and space proposition.

Good for readers who want: science, philosophy, physics, and a short read.

  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Science, philosophy
  • Cosmology

2 About Stephen Hawking

1942–2018

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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