Letters to a Young Scientist - Couverture souple

Wilson, Edward O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0871403854 ISBN 13 : 9780871403858

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and his failures - and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. From the collapse of stars to the exploration of rain forests and the oceans' depths, Wilson instills a love of the innate creativity of science and a respect for the human being's modest place in the planet's ecosystem, in his readers.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Edward O. Wilson, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ants, the bestselling novel Anthill (ISBN 978 0 393 33970 3), The Social Conquest of Earth (ISBN 978 0 87140 363 6), The Superorganism (ISBN 978 0 393 06704 0) and From So Simple a Beginning (ISBN 978 0 393 06134 5).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871403854
• ISBN 13: 9780871403858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256