About the author
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who spent his academic career at Cambridge. His research concerned black holes, gravity, and the origin of the universe; his popular writing opened those questions to readers without advanced mathematics.
A Brief History of Time begins with the oldest large questions: What is the universe made of? Did it have a beginning? Does time have an end? Stephen Hawking approaches them through the changing models people have used to describe the sky, from Aristotle and Ptolemy to Newton and Einstein.
Where to start
Start with A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking explains what modern physics can say about the origin, structure, and possible fate of the universe.
