A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book)

2005 popular science book by Stephen Hawking

A Briefer History of Time
First edition
Authors	Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Language	English
Subject	The Universe
Published	2005 (Bantam Books)
Publication place	United States
Pages	176 (paperback)
ISBN	0-553-80436-7

A Briefer History of Time is a 2006 popular-science book by the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow.

Overview

The book is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time. In this book Hawking and Mlodinow present quantum mechanics, string theory, the big bang theory, and other topics in a more accessible fashion to the general public. The book is updated with newly discovered topics, and informs of recurring subjects throughout the book in greater detail.

References

Hawking, Stephen; Mlodinow, Leonard (27 September 2005). A Briefer History of Time. Random House Publishing. ISBN 0553804367. OCLC 254755556.

Stephen Hawking

Physics

Books

Science	The Large Scale Structure of Space–Time (1973) A Brief History of Time (1988) Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993) The Nature of Space and Time (1996) The Universe in a Nutshell (2001) On the Shoulders of Giants (2002) A Briefer History of Time (2005) God Created the Integers (2005) The Grand Design (2010) The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of (2011) Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018) On the Origin of Time (2023, posthume message)
Fiction	George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009) George and the Big Bang (2011) George and the Unbreakable Code (2014) George and the Blue Moon (2016) Unlocking the Universe (2020)
Memoirs	My Brief History (2013)

Films

Television

God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988)
Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997 documentary)
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008 documentary)
Genius of Britain (2010 series)
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010 series)
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011 series)
Genius by Stephen Hawking (2016 series)

Family

Jane Wilde Hawking (first wife)
Lucy Hawking (daughter)

Other

v t e Works by Leonard Mlodinow
Euclid's Window (2001) Some Time with Feynman (2003) Feynman's Rainbow (2003) The Last Dinosaur (2004) Titanic Cat (2004) A Briefer History of Time (2005) The Drunkard's Walk (2008) The Grand Design (2010) War of the Worldviews (2011) Subliminal (2012) The Upright Thinkers (2015) Elastic (2018) Stephen Hawking (2020) Emotional (2022)

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