Kitty Ferguson

Stephen Hawking es una de las figuras más notables de nuestro tiempo: un genio de Cambridge que se ha ganado la fama internacional como un brillante físico teórico y que se ha convertido en una fuente de inspiracion para aquellos que han sido testigos de su valiente triunfo sobre su discapacidad. Para este libro Kitty Ferguson, conocida por su capacidad de traducir el lenguaje de la fisica teorica para un publico cientifico, ha contado con la colaboracion del propio Hawking y de sus colaboradores mas cercanos.Hace veinte años, una primera version de este libro se convirtio en un gran exito de ventas. Ahora, la autora vuelve sobre el tema en una cuidada biografia ampliada y actualizada, que nos permite conocer a Hawking desde su infancia, el comienzo desgarrador de su lucha con la enfermedad neurodegenerativa cuando era aun un estudiante de posgrado, su creciente fama internacional y su larga batalla por la supervivencia personal en la busqueda de una comprension cientifica del universo. A lo largo de la obra tambien se resume y explica a los profanos la ciencia de vanguardia con la que Hawking se ha comprometido.Ricamente ilustrado con fotografias, Stephen Hawking: su vida y obra esta escrito con claridad y sencillez . El resultado es un relato fascinante de una vida extraordinaria y la obra de una mente privilegiada.

This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pythagoras had much the same idea - but 2,500 years earlier. Though known by many only for his famous Theorem, in fact the pillars of our scientific tradition - belief that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos - hark back to the convictions of this legendary scholar. Kitty Ferguson brilliantly evokes Pythagoras ancient world of, showing how ideas spread in antiquity, and chronicles the incredible influence he and his followers have had on so many extraordinary people in the history of Western thought and science. Pythagoras influence on the ideas, and therefore on the destiny, of the human race was probably greater than that of any single man before or after him - Arthur Koestler.

Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. His book A Brief History of Time, a laymans guide to cosmology, appeared on the Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks and sold more than 10 million copies.As Martin Rees, the cosmologist, astronomer royal and Hawkings longtime colleague wrote, "His name will live in the annals of science; millions have had their cosmic horizons widened by his best-selling books; and even more, around the world, have been inspired by a unique example of achievement against all the odds a manifestation of amazing willpower and determination."In this concise and informative guide to Hawkings life and work, his key scientific achievements from gravitational singularities to quantum cosmology are covered in an approachable and accessible way. This is a celebration of an icon of modern physics, who inspired generations of scientists and changed our understanding of the universe.

Una emocionante y accesible mezcla de historia y ciencia de vanguardia, una crónica del esfuerzo del hombre para expandir las fronteras de entendimiento del cosmos. ¿A qué distancia? ¿A qué velocidad? ¿Que dimensiones? ¿Que edad? ¿Quienes somos? Son cuestiones arraigadas a una curiosidad secular y cuyas respuestas exceden el ambito de las matematicas y la astronomia. La politica, la religion, la filosofia y la ambicion personal de los seres humanos, sin duda, tambien desempeñan su papel en este drama. Este libro examina dichos enigmas cientificos, asi como el dificil entorno desde el que han sido estudiados, discutidos y, en ocasiones, resuletos.