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Geoffrey West: a matemática surpreendente das cidades e empresas

Filmed Jul 2011 • Posted Jul 2011TEDGlobal 2011
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O físico Geoffrey West descobriu que por detrás das dinâmicas das cidades operam leis matemáticas simples - riqueza, taxa de criminalidade, ritmo do passo e muitos outros aspectos de uma cidade podem ser deduzidos a partir de um simples número: a sua população. Nesta desafiante palestra para a TEDGlobal, ele mostra como funciona e como leis semelhantes se aplicam a organismos e empresas.

Physicist Geoffrey West believes that complex systems from organisms to cities are in many ways governed by simple laws -- laws that can be discovered and analyzed. Full bio »

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Reviewed by Nez Ribeiro
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