Mathematician:Stephen William Hawking
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Mathematician
British mathematician, physicist and cosmologist best known for his works of popular science.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England, UK
- Died: 14 March 2018 in Cambridge, England, UK
Theorems and Definitions
- Hawking Radiation
- Penrose-Hawking Theorems (with Roger Penrose)
- Bekenstein-Hawking Formula (with Jacob David Bekenstein)
- Hawking Energy
- Gibbons-Hawking Ansatz (with Gary William Gibbons)
- Gibbons-Hawking Effect (with Gary William Gibbons)
- Gibbons-Hawking Space (with Gary William Gibbons)
- Gibbons-Hawking-York Boundary Term (with Gary William Gibbons and James W. York)
- Thorne-Hawking-Preskill Bet (with Kip Stephen Thorne and John Phillip Preskill)
Publications
Technical
- 1969: Singularities in Collapsing Stars and Expanding Universes (with Dennis Sciama)
- 1973: The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime (with George Ellis)
- 1996: The Nature of Space and Time (with Roger Penrose)
- 1997: The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Roger Penrose)
- 2005: Information Loss in Black Holes
- 2005: Black Holes and the Information Paradox
Popular
- 1988: A Brief History of Time
- 1993: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
- 2001: The Universe in a Nutshell
- 2002: On The Shoulders of Giants
- 2005: A Briefer History of Time (with Leonard Mlodinow)
- 2005: God Created the Integers
- 2010: The Grand Design (with Leonard Mlodinow)
Children's fiction
- 2007: George's Secret Key to the Universe (with Lucy Hawking)
- 2009: George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (with Lucy Hawking)
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Stephen William Hawking": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Hawking, Stephen William FRS (1942- )