'Hawking' Profiles The Ever-Fascinating Scientist — Minus The Nefarious Equations
There's little to surprise in this story, especially if you know a bit about the subject's life and his ideas. But author Jim Ottaviani finds a nice balance between the personal and the theoretical.
There are some people who can look at complex equations — this one, for example:
... and get lost in them. Where we ordinary folks see a mishmash that evokes the hopeless feeling of wrestling with 12th-grade calculus, these remarkable people see galaxies. Exploding stars. Time itself. (Or, in this case, .) The ability to peer into an equation and find a framework for the universe is a rare one, an enviable one, and one that's
