STEPHEN HAWKING: HIS LIFE AND WORK: THE STORY AND SCIENCE OF ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY, CELEBRATED, AND COURAGEOUS FIGURES OF OUR TIME

Book ID/图书代码： 12311010B40138

English Summary/英文概要： This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of the late 20th century - Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. His book, "A Brief History of Time", has sold eight million copies worldwide and familiarized a whole generation with complex but exciting scientific theories. When Kitty Ferguson approached Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories, he agreed to do so and also supplied her with material about his childhood and life. It is not a biography per se. It is rather the story of one man’s quest to find the "theory of everything". In these pages you will encounter a multitude of amazing paradoxes: Beginnings may be endings. Two great scientific theories taken together seem to give us nonsense. Empty space isn’t empty. Black holes aren’t black. Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, although fame and success may not, and a man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us laughing to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be - but are not.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这个故事讲述的是20世界最伟大的人物之一－－斯蒂芬·霍金教授，名响国际的剑桥天才，爱因斯坦之后最杰出的理论物理学家。他的《时间简史》已在全球售出八百万册，使一整代人熟悉了复杂但激动人心的科学理论。当Kitty Ferguson拜访霍金，提出打算写一本关于他的书，希望他能帮助她理解他的理论时，他答应了，而且还提供给她自己儿时和后来生活的资料。这本书本身不是传记，它是讲述一个人探索‘万物理论’的故事。在字里行间你会遇到许多悖论：开始可以是结尾。两个伟大的科学理论放在一起会变成荒谬。空间并不空。黑洞并不黑。残酷的情况会引出喜剧，而成名成功未必。而一个外表骇人、引人同情的人引领我们笑看时空的界限何在――实际是个严肃的问题。(兼职翻译-SXX)

Awards/获奖情况：Ferguson captures the very full life and work of one of the most vibrant minds of our time. ---Publishers Weekly

Fascinating. ---Observer

The reader is drawn on by some of the best scientific definitions, analogies, simple explanations and downright interesting writing I have ever seen. ---Evening Standard

Ferguson deftly conveys an exciting sense of both Stephen Hawking himself and his pre-eminent role in modern-day theoretical physics ... A fine introduction to Hawking’s own A Brief History of Time. ---Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： Kitty Ferguson first became acquainted with Stephen Hawking and his family when she lived in Cambridge in the late 1980s. Around that time she retired from her career as a professional singer and conductor and began writing and lecturing about science and scientists for readers and audiences with little or no scientific background. Her seven books have appeared to critical acclaim all over the world. She and her husband now divide their time between Cambridge and South Carolina.

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