附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology; 2. The Event Horizon; 3. The Four Laws of Black Hole Mechanics; 4. Particle Creation by Black Holes; 5. Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity; 6. Breakdown of Predictability in Gravitational Collapse; 7. Evaporation of Two-Dimensional BIack Holes; 8. Cosmological Event Horizons, Thermodynamics, and Particle Creation; 9. The Development of Irregularities in a Single Bubble Inflationary Universe.
摘要:Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics. Hawking's early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed the significance of spacetime singularities for the big bang and black holes. His later work has been concerned with a deeper understanding of these two issues. The work required extensive use of the two great intellectual achievements of the first half of the Twentieth Century: general relativ.
