Reviews Astronomy BOOK LIST | Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News April 21, 2008 at 6:40 pm Pickover, who has authored 40 books on many aspects of science and mathematics, discusses how the works of great minds from Archimedes to Stephen Hawking have changed humankind’s understanding of the universe. BIG IDEAS, AND BIG THINKERS, IN COSMOLOGY Oxford University Press, 2008, 514 p., $27.95.