The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything Gleiser Marcelo
A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicist.Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de…
Specifikacia The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything Gleiser Marcelo
A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicist.Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. As a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to once again connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class on the Dartmouth College green, he decided to learn to fly-fish, a hobby, he says, that teaches humility. In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Gleiser travels the world to scientific conferences, fishing wherever he goes. At each stop, he ponders the myriad ways physics informs the act of fishing; how, in its turn, fishing serves as a lens into nature's inner workings; and how science engages with questions of meaning