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
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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Very interesting book. A good way of looking at life and death. Animal, people and organizations are not all that different, with sublinear scaling whereas city has super-linear scaling. The key of keeping growth is to overcome discontinuity and use innovation to fuel the growth. However, whether singularity will come is still a question.
評分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。
評分再一次被物理學傢的視角震撼到瞭。想認知世界,還是物理學傢和數學傢最牛逼。 減掉的一分因為實在太羅嗦,扯瞭太多故事和人物介紹,看著忒辛苦。 最後對奇點的解釋沒明白,為啥突然就superexponential瞭。然後扯到公司也有點牽強。
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.
“这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代” 《规模》这本书,详细讲述了:”规模“,在生物学、医药、造船业、城市发展、企业生存方面的规律及特性。 作者作为一个“理论物理学家”,通过详细的大数据分析,解释了隐藏在不同领域下的生长规律。 书中引经据典,案例详实,数据可靠。 ...
評分关于发展的物理学视角 评《规模》 对于发展,人们都可以提出很多的问题来,比如人怎么会出现在这个地球上?生命的生长和消亡背后的机理是什么?经济发展背后的动因是什么?社会发展又有什么规律可言?等等。发展是一个哲学名词,是事物不断前进的过程,由小到大,由简到繁,由...
評分《红楼梦》里刘姥姥初见凤姐,听她说“大有大的难处”,以为接济无望。在她看来,对方拔根寒毛比自己的腰还粗,岂会真有困难?但凤姐的应酬语,日后竟一语成谶,忽喇喇似大厦倾,“大”早已变成了空皮囊。 大的生物、大的工具、大的企业、大的城市,难道只是“小”的放大版吗?...
評分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...
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