7 of the coolest books by Stephen Hawking

The famous theoretical physicist and science popularizer Stephen Hawking wrote for his life more than a dozen books. Layfhaker tells about those who are required reading.

1. A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to black holes

The book, published in 1988, Hawking talks about is something sooner or later probably thought every one of us: How there was a universe, what is the nature of space and time, what are black holes and the theory was born superstrings. The author writes about some mathematical problems, but causes only one formula - E = mc².

For 20 years it has been sold more than 10 million copies of this book.

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2. A Briefer History of Time

17 years after the release of "A Brief History" Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow write a sequel. They used the latest data from astronomical laboratories. The authors say that this dark matter and black energy, whether time travel is possible, what is the past and future of the universe, and even more deeply immersed in string theory.

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3. Theory of Everything. From singularity to infinity: the origin and fate of the universe

This is also the history of the universe, complemented by stunning illustrations - snapshots space telescope "Hubble". Hawking witty and accessible talks about the Big Bang and the continuing search for a theory of everything - a unified field theory, "the Holy Grail of modern physics." Its appearance, according to the author, would mean the triumph of the human mind.

The book, written in 2006, brings together seven lectures Hawking.

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4. George's Secret Key to the Universe

Children's book, written in collaboration with Hawking's daughter Lucy, and former graduate student, popularizer of science Christophe Galfarom.

Funny story about the space adventures, in which get the boy George and his neighbors, scientist Eric and his daughter Anna. The authors are very interesting and accessible talk about quasars, asteroids, black holes, parallel universes and galaxies.

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5. Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

The book is based on lectures Hawking at the University of California, published in 1980. But later it was supplemented in 2017 and translated into Russian. This collection, which includes 13 essays of the scientist and his An exploded interview.

Topics addressed very interesting. Such as black holes can give life to a young universe.

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6. The Grand Design

Together with Leonard Mlodinovym Hawking sings an ode to science. He argues that "it is impossible to prove the non-existence of God, but science makes it unnecessary." And because the Big Bang may be a consequence of laws physics and nothing more.

The book, which describes the essence of M-theory unifying the fundamental interactions, was published in 2010 and a few days became a bestseller.

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7. My brief history. Autobiography

An autobiographical book, Hawking wrote only in 2013. The reason is simple - it is believed that popularize science is more important than talking about himself. But the louder the sound of his name, the more was wanting to know about Hawking more. And he decided to talk about his illness, family science.

In this book, the scientist said, even on the most difficult and personal issues.

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