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2024-11-05
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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。
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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.”
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.
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 評分世间万物既有其存在与发展的内在逻辑,也有其相联、相通的外在逻辑。21世纪科学所面临的一个重大挑战是,如何从生命的复杂性中探索出简单性的基本原则。 物理学中几乎所有定律都来自简单性,所有层级组织的基本原则和概念,它们是可以计量的、可量化的。那么,推而广之,是否存...
評分 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...
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