SCALE

From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of eve rything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity s cience, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term complexity can be misleading, however, because what makes Wests di scoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of livi ng systems,...[Llegir més]