Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and the
recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. His books for the general reader include My
Brief History, the classic A Brief History of
Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby
Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, and, with Leonard
Mlodinow, A Briefer History of Time and The Grand
Design. Stephen Hawking died in 2018.
Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in theoretical
physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and teaches
at Caltech. He is the New York
Times bestselling author of The Drunkard’s Walk: How
Randomness Rules our Lives, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious
Mind Rules Your Behavior, War of the Worldviews: Science
versus Spirituality (with Deepak Chopra), Feynman’s
Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life,
and Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines
to Hyperspace. He also wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He
lives in South Pasadena, California.
“The authors bring together an anecdotal clarity that is something
of a first for the genre. . . . Making science like this
interesting is not all that hard; making it accessible is the real
trick, one that The Grand Design pulls off.”—Time
“Groundbreaking.”—The Washington Post
“In this short and sprightly book . . . Hawking and Mlodinow take
the reader through a whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and
cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer
understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating
complexity.”—Los Angeles Times
“Provocative pop science, an exploration of the latest thinking
about the origins of our universe.”—The New York Times
“Introduces the reader to topics at the frontier of theoretical
physics . . . more clearly for general readers than I have seen
before.”—Steven Weinberg, The New York Review of Books
“A provocative, mind-expanding book.”—The Plain Dealer
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