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  • ENGLISH

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  • 240

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  • 9780553175219

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  • 129 mm

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  • 198 mm

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  • 221 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 1-APR-95

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    Was There A Beginning Of Time Could Time Run Backwards Is The Universe Infinite Or Does It Have Boundaries These Are Just Some Of The Questions Considered In An Internationally Acclaimed Masterpiece Which Begins By Reviewing The Great Theories Of The Cosmos From Newton To Einstein, Before Delving Into The Secrets Which Still Lie At The Heart Of Space And Time. Paperback , 220 Pages Published 1998 By Bantam (first Published 1987)

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    Stephen Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his fathers old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.

    Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there being no-one working in that area in Oxford at the time. His supervisor was Denis Sciama, although he had hoped to get Fred Hoyle who was working in Cambridge. After gaining his Ph.D. he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973 Stephen came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair was founded in 1663 with money left in the will of the Reverend Henry Lucas, who had been the Member of Parliament for the University. It was first held by Isaac Barrow, and then in 1669 by Isaac Newton.

    Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einsteins General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually e

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