Scale

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Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology. West is a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the president from 2005-2009. In 2006 he was named to Time’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.”

出版者:Penguin Random House USA Ex
作者:Geoffrey West
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页数:496
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出版时间:2017-5-16
价格:GBP 22.56
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781594205583
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  • 科普 
  • complexity 
  • 管理 
  • 物理 
  • Scale 
  • 科学-生物/医学/生命科学 
  • 生物学 
  • 心理学 
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From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.

Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses.

Fascinated by aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science: West found that despite the riotous diversity in mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal’s circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism’s body.

West’s work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work’s applicability. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie precision to them. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work to the business world. This investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored. Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune.

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本来我对人类未来能大幅度提高寿命还是挺乐观的,但是看了这本书顿时觉得希望渺茫了。

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生物学思维还是很有好处的,英文也很优美

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本来我对人类未来能大幅度提高寿命还是挺乐观的,但是看了这本书顿时觉得希望渺茫了。

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好书,作者对生物和社会组织,使用科学的方法,一数据分析的方式,推导出规模化扩张的一般规律。也解答诸如为什么蚂蚁这么小,却可以举起自身重量若干倍的重物等。

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再一次被物理学家的视角震撼到了。想认知世界,还是物理学家和数学家最牛逼。 减掉的一分因为实在太罗嗦,扯了太多故事和人物介绍,看着忒辛苦。 最后对奇点的解释没明白,为啥突然就superexponential了。然后扯到公司也有点牵强。

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