Stephen Hawking
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Genius volume 3
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English
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World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of fun challenges to show them how to think like a genius. Can they work out why they exist at all? Is it destiny or pure chance?
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Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology. Includes: Conceptual Revolution by Paul Thagard; Cosmic Understanding by Milton K. Munitz; Gravitation and Inertia by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler; The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking.
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Genius volume 5
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English
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As his epic new series continues Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of fun challenges to try and get them to understand what they really are. In this episode the volunteers are led to an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.
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Genius volume 2
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English
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Stephen Hawking sets three volunteers a series of fun challenges to show them how to think like a genius - and find out how likely it is that aliens exist.
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Genius volume 4
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English
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World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of mind-blowing challenges. Can they think like a genius? Can they work out where the universe came from?
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Resumen del libro por Strem readers, esta es una versin abreviada del ttulo original.
"Breves respuestas a las grandes preguntas" ofrece una reflexin sobre algunos de los interrogantes ms profundos de la humanidad, abordando temas como el origen del universo, la existencia de Dios, los lmites del conocimiento y el futuro de la humanidad. El libro resume las respuestas que el autor dio a estas grandes preguntas a lo largo de su vida, utilizando...
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Breve historia del tiempo es un libro de divulgacin cientfica escrito por Stephen Hawking, que busca explicar los principios fundamentales del universo de manera accesible para el pblico general. El libro cubre temas como el Big Bang, los agujeros negros, la relatividad, la mecnica cuntica y la posibilidad de viajes en el tiempo. Hawking utiliza un tono amigable y humorstico para hacer que conceptos complejos sean ms comprensibles.
Los temas principales...
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Genius volume 1
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English
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World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of mind-blowing challenges. Can they think like a genius? Can they work out if time travel is possible?
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Genius volume 6
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English
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Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of fun physical and mental challenges to show them how to think like a genius. Can they measure the earth, the solar system and even the universe and find out where we really are?
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The brilliant mind that presented the world with A Brief History of Time offers more insights into the mysteries of the universe.
Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, The Theory of Everything presents the most complex concepts of physics- both past and present- in a clear and accessible manner. Acclaimed physicist and author of A Brief History of Time- which has sold more than 25 million copies- Stephen Hawking enlightens...
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Princeton Science Library volume Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures
Isaac Newton Institute series of lectures
Isaac Newton Institute series of lectures
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English
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"Roger Penrose, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences" Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cycles of Time and The Road to Reality (both Vintage). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
From two of the world's great physicists-Stephen...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of the greatest minds of our time explores profound questions such as: How did the universe begin-and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending-or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter...
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The bestselling follow-up to Hawking's phenomenal million-copy hardcover bestseller A Brief History of Time is now available in trade paperback. These 14 pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and--always--the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller A Brief History of Time. Bantam is proud...
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In this book Stephen Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe. Like many in the community of theoretical physicists, Professor Hawking is seeking to uncover the grail of science-the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. He guides us on his search to uncover the secrets of the universe-from supergravity to supersymmetry, from quantum...
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162 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In the years since the publication of Hawking's A Brief History of Time, readers have repeatedly told Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the reason for A Briefer History: his wish to make its content more accessible to readers--as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary...
17) The grand design
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198 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that...
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xxiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Dr. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years to live. In later life he could communicate only by using a few facial...