Stephen Hawking

by Larsen, Kristine

• ISBN13: 9781591025740
• ISBN10: 1591025745
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-10-31
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Writing in nontechnical language for the lay reader, Larsen clearly explains Hawking's complex scientific accomplishments, while telling the story of his challenging life.

Author Biography

Kristine Larsen, professor of physics and astronomy at Central Connecticut State University

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Timeline	p. 11
Destiny's Child: An Auspicious Birth and Eclectic Upbringing	p. 21
Scientist in Training: The Oxford Years	p. 29
Tragedy and Triumph: Deadly Disease and Dissertation	p. 37
Children and Calculations: Family Man and Theoretician	p. 51
"Stephen's Changed Everything": Black Holes Aren't Black	p. 59
Caltech and Cambridge: Exploring New Horizons	p. 69
Physics or Metaphysics?: The "No-Boundary" Proposal	p. 81
Challenges and Controversy: An Unexpected Silence and Time's Arrows	p. 95
The Best Selling Book That "No One Read": A Brief History of Time	p. 107
To Boldly Go: Time Travel and Television	p. 117
Plays, P-branes, and Polls: Private Lives and Public Pronouncements	p. 129
Books and Bets: The Universe in a Nutshell and the End of a Paradox	p. 145
Epilogue: Stephen Hawking: Man vs. Myth	p. 157
Afterword	p. 161
Appendixes
General Relativity and Cosmology	p. 175
The Laws of Thermodynamics and Black Holes	p. 183
Inflationary Cosmology	p. 185
The AdS/CFT Correspondence	p. 193
Glossary	p. 195
Select Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 205
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