TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the 2013 book “Letters to a Young Scientist” written by Edward Wilson has hit the Iranian book market.

Translated by Maryam Boroumand, the book has been published Nashr-e Now publishing house in 223 pages, Mehr reported.

In the book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. As the author has declared, one doesn't need to be brilliant at math to become a great scientist.

Wilson has distilled 60 years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a boy scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these 21 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 in human history 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.

Edward Wilson (1929-2021) was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his humanist ideas pertaining to ethical matters. He was the Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 

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