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Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

Lot 116
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 1 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 116 | Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

God Created the Integers. 2005

HAWKING, Stephen (1942-2018), editor. God Created the Integers. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2005.



Hawking selects his most important mathematical works in a single-volume, bringing together for the first time tracts by Euclid, Archimedes, Descartes, Newton, Laplace, Fourier, Gauss, Boole, Riemann, Cantor, Gödel, Turing and others. Each are prefaced by a short introductory essay by Hawking, setting out the biographic and mathematical context.



Octavo (229 x 150mm). Later printing. Half-title, text diagrams (faint soil mark on fore-edge of text block, otherwise fine). Publisher's blue boards (one corner with tiny bump, otherwise fine); pictorial dustjacket (fine). [Sold with:] – My Brief History (London, 2013); [And:] – The Illustrated Theory of Everything. The origin and fate of the universe. (Beverly Hills, CA, 2003); [And:] – Lucy HAWKING. George's Secret Key to the Universe (London, 2007); [And:] – George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (London, 2009). Provenance: Stephen Hawking (presentation copies 'signed' with thumbprint on half-title of George's Secret Key to the Universe and on titles of all the others) – Lucy Hawking (inscriptions on half-title and title of last two books listed, to:) – David Howard (Hawking’s laryngologist).

Genre:Landscape painting
Place of origin:Northern Europe
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