A Briefer history of time / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, c2005, 2008.Edition: Bantam trade pbkDescription: xi, 162 pages: color illustrations; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780553385465
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 523.1 H31b 2008
Contents:
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 conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects of wide interest that have now been given entire chapters of their own, including relativity, curved space, and quantum theory. This reorganization has allowed the authors to expand areas of recent progress, from string theory to exciting developments in the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics.--From publisher description.
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Includes index.

in English

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 conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects of wide interest that have now been given entire chapters of their own, including relativity, curved space, and quantum theory. This reorganization has allowed the authors to expand areas of recent progress, from string theory to exciting developments in the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics.--From publisher description.

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