Stephen Хокинг was one of the most influential physicists of contemporaneity, and his life affected and partly changed lives of millions of people. Leonard Млодинов calls to those two decades in that he was a colleague and friend of scientist, to draw his portrait - unique and very personal. He acquaints with Хокингомгением puzzling over the riddles of Universe and all universe and eventually formulating a brave theory oh radiation of black holes, that compelled to look a cosmology and physicists at the problem of origin of space from an absolutely new corner. We meet Хокинга, illness of that does not allow to pronounce more than six words him in a minute, but that does not forget to joke. Finally, on these pages the question is about a Хокинге-друге that was able to express the whole palette of emotions, frowning or heaving up an eyebrow. Leonard Млодинов enters us in a room, where Хокинг appeases the passion for wine, curry and music| divided by feelings in regard to love, death and infirmity of body| contests with dilemmas from an area philosophy and physics. And an invincible human spirit oozes in all of it.This book is not only on science, but about life and her ability to overcome unbelievable barriers. It is inspiring history of Stephen Хокинга, man, friend and physicist.