About the Authors
STEPHEN HAWKING is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge; his other books for the general reader
include the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes and The Universe in aNutshell.
LEONARD MLODINOW, his collaborator for this new edition, has taught at Caltech, written for Star Trek: The Next Generation,
and is the author of Euclid’s Window and Feynman’s Rainbow and the coauthor of the children’s book series The Kids of Einstein
Elementary.
ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING
A Brief History of Time
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
The Universe in a Nutshell
ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW
Euclid’s Window
Feynman’s Rainbow
A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME A Bantam Book/ October 2005
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hawking, S W (Stephen W)
A briefer history of time / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
p cm.
Includes index.
1. Cosmology. I Mlodinow, Leonard, 1954— II Title.
QB981.H3773 2005
523.1—dc22
2005042949
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