Scale 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 科普 complexity 管理 物理 Scale 科學-生物/醫學/生命科學 生物學 心理學
發表於2025-03-17
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生物學思維還是很有好處的,英文也很優美
評分這本書會讓你見識到物理學傢風格的思維方法——“尺度分析”,和它帶來的驚人結論。尺度分析本來隻研究物理問題,而作者韋斯特把這個方法用在瞭生物學、社會科學和經濟學上,結果一齣手就等於橫掃。這本書能讓你見識一點世界的底層邏輯,瞭解一點物理學的套路,又能治療某些流行的妄想。它難度係數有點高、道理有點硬,非常值得你來挑戰一下。
評分好書,作者對生物和社會組織,使用科學的方法,一數據分析的方式,推導齣規模化擴張的一般規律。也解答諸如為什麼螞蟻這麼小,卻可以舉起自身重量若乾倍的重物等。
評分Highly recommended! It looks at life and death by integrating a physicist’s angles with sociologist’s perspectives, and compares the commonalities and differences as far as lifecycle is concerned among animals, human beings, companies, cities, ... very inspirational.
評分本來我對人類未來能大幅度提高壽命還是挺樂觀的,但是看瞭這本書頓時覺得希望渺茫瞭。
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.”
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.
信息浓度非常高的一本书。篇幅也不小,纸书有568页,致谢与注释只占7%。 全书讲各种复杂的东西中存在的普遍规律:哺乳动物体重每增加一倍,心率降低25%;城市人口每增加一倍,加油站只增加85%;城市规模越大,工资越高,GDP越高,犯罪案件越频发,艾滋病和流感病例越多,餐厅越...
評分 評分当两个人组成了一个家庭,很多资源能共用,多余的精力可以投放到更有生产力的工作中,实现一加一大于二。同理,当人类由独居变成群居,随着规模的增大,世界向前更进一步。 世界顶级理论物理学家杰弗里·韦斯特在《规模》一书中,用数学的语言告诉我们复杂世界存在的简单规律,...
評分如果你想从这本书学到什么你就错了,真不明白如此恢宏的书名,仿佛看透宇宙真理一般,洋洋洒洒的字里行间就是重复啰嗦的说明一句话——非线性增长。然后其中的事例累积成堆,繁琐冗长,毫无借鉴之处,只可以当做趣闻轶事做饭后谈资,别无他用。我是怀着对买书的64元的劳动成果...
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