Introducing Stephen Hawking (Introducing...)

click here for more details, find new or used items	J.P. McEvoy Used from £0.01 Pages: 176 (Paperback) ISBN: 1840460962 Pub: Icon Books Ltd Pub date: 1999-11-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 383406

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Great Book! (0/0 people found this helpful)

I am currently in my GCSE year, my physics teacher is crap and I didn't understand the whole cosmology topic and the majority of Newton laws. I was at the point of dropping triple award science because of it...
...Reading this book really put me back on track and helped me understand the basic physics behind the hard stuff we learn later. if you are struggling with you basic physics I would recommend this book as an easy way in with lots of pictures!

Great Book! (2/2 people found this helpful)

I am currently in my GCSE year, my phsics teacher is crap and I didn't understand the whole cosmoligy topic and tthe majority of newtons laws. I was at the point of dropping tripple award sience because of it...

...Reading this book really put me back on track and helped me understand the basic phyics behind the hard stuff we learn later. if you are struggling with you basic phyics I would recomend this book as an easy way in with lots of pictures!

Pitched too high (0/1 people found this helpful)

I was disappointed with this book; it's too difficult for the non-mathematical reader. Obviously cosmology is a complex subject, but I'm sure it could have been explained more simply. McEvoy insists on filling the book with long algebraic formulae and often uses specialist language without defining it. After reading this book, my grasp of the subject remains tenuous. A missed opportunity.

An excellent analysis of a brilient mind (4/5 people found this helpful)

Introducing Stephen Hawking by J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate

Stephen Hawking is a scientist whom in most people inspires a combination of pity and envy. Pity for the fact that he is trapped in a living prison that is his own body, and envy for the fact that he possesses a mind that has the ability to dissect the universe in a way that the rest of us could not even hope to do.

J. P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate have succeeded in putting together a book that accomplishes the two tasks of analysing the life and mind of a great scientist and of outlining how this mind has been able to dissect the theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. A task that has resulted in Hawking discovering how these very distinct and revolutionary theories seem to overlap or even contradict each other.

I found this book to be both interesting and easy to follow. It showed me the tragedy of a young man whom had his body taken from him, and who was therefore forced to rely on his mind alone. It also showed me how that very same man succeeded in utilising this tragedy to his advantage, which has resulted in the continued advancement of physics.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in physics and/or in the life of Stephen Hawking. It is a good read and I found the book difficult to put down.

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