Mr Cox, a particle physicist, is well-known as the presenter of two BBC television series thathave attracted millions of viewers and as a bestsellingauthor and public speaker. His latest book, The Quantum Universe, which he co-wrote withJeff Forshaw of the University of Manchester, breaks the rules of popular science-writing thatwere established over two decades ago by Stephen Hawking, who launched the moderngenre with his famous book, A Brief History of Time.

　　粒子物理学家考克斯先生，因推荐了两部吸引了数百万观众的BBC电视剧而知名。他同样是畅销书作者兼公开演讲家。他的新书《量子宇宙》，是由他和曼彻斯特大学的杰夫福索合著的。该书打破了20年前由史蒂芬霍金创立的科普写作规范。霍金以其著作《时间简史》开创了这一现代写作流派。

　　Mr Hawking s literary success was ascribed to his eschewing equations. One of his editorswarned him that sales of the book would be halved by every equation he included; MrHawking inserted just one, E=mc2, and, even then, the volume acquired a sorry reputationfor being bought but not read. By contrast, Mr Cox, whose previous book with Mr Forshawinvestigated Why does E=mc2? , has bravely sloshed a generous slug ofmathematics throughout his texts.

　　霍金在文学上的成功归因于他避开了方程式。一位编辑曾警告他，每个写进书中的方程式都会让销量减半。霍金就插了一个：E=Mc2。即使那样，让人感到遗憾的是，该书是靠购买量而非阅读量赢得声誉。相比之下，在上一本旨在探寻为什么是E=Mc2的书中，考克斯与福索就已经大胆地通篇砍掉冗长的数学公式。

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