霍金：时间简史（普及版） A Briefer History of Time

基本信息

by Leonard Mlodinow (Author) , Stephen Hawking (Author)

Format:Paperback / softback 176 pages

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Imprint:Bantam Press

ISBN:9780593056974

Published:11 Sep 2008

Weight:430g

Dimensions:226 x 153 x 11 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

斯蒂芬·霍金的全球畅销书《时间简史》是科学写作史上的里程碑之作。作者引人入胜的叙述是其成功的原因之一，他探讨的主题引人入胜也是其成功的原因：空间和时间的本质、上帝在创世中的作用，以及宇宙的历史和未来。然而，自该书出版以来，读者们也曾多次向霍金教授反映，他们难以理解书中的一些重要概念。

这正是《时间简史》的起源和创作原因：作者希望让读者能够轻松理解书中的内容，并使其与新的科学观察和发现保持同步。尽管这本书在字面上显得略显“简洁”，但它实际上扩展了原著中的重要主题。诸如混沌边界条件的数学等纯粹的技术性概念已被摒弃。

相反，那些过去因散布于全书各处而难以理解的热门主题，如今则被赋予了独立的章节，包括相对论、弯曲空间和量子理论。这种重组使作者能够扩展特别感兴趣的领域和新进展，从弦理论的新发展到探索所有物理力的完整统一理论的激动人心的进展。与本书之前的版本一样——甚至更胜一筹——《时间简史》将引导世界各地的非科学家持续探索时空核心的诱人秘密。

38幅全彩插图增强了文本的美感，使《时间简史》本身就成为科学文献中令人振奋的补充。

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts.

This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time: its author's wish to make its content accessible to readers - as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Although this book is literally somewhat 'briefer', it actually expands on the great subjects of the original. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary conditions, are gone.

Conversely, subjects of wide interest that were difficult to follow because they were interspersed throughout the book 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 special interest and recent progress, from the latest developments in string theory to exciting developments in the search for a complete, unified theory of all the forces of physics. Like prior editions of the book-but even more so - A Briefer History of Time will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.

Thirty-eight full-colour pictures enhance the text and make A Briefer History of Time an exhilarating addition in its own right to the literature of science.

作者简介

迪帕克·乔布拉 (Deepak Chopra) 著有 50 多部非虚构类和虚构类著作，已被翻译成 35 多种语言，其中包括国际畅销书《永恒的身体，永恒的心灵》(Ageless Body, Timeless Mind)。

伦纳德·蒙洛迪诺 (Leonard Mlodinow) 教授拥有加州大学伯克利分校的理论物理学博士学位，现任教于加州理工学院。

斯蒂芬·霍金是一位杰出的理论物理学家，被公认为世界上伟大的思想家之一。他曾在剑桥大学担任卢卡斯数学教授长达三十年，著有国际畅销书《时间简史》(A Brief History of Time)。他的其他面向大众的著作包括《时间简史》(A Briefer History of Time)、散文集《黑洞与婴儿宇宙》(Black Holes and Baby Universe)、《果壳中的宇宙》(The Universe in a Nutshell)、《宏大设计》(The Grand Design) 和《黑洞：BBC 里斯讲座》(Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures)。

Deepak Chopra is the author of more than 50 books, both non-fiction and fiction. They have been translated into more than 35 languages and include the huge international bestseller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. 

Professor Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at Caltech.

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures.