Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
500/BEJAN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2012]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
vii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385534611 (hbk.), 0385534612 (hbk.), 0385534612 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The birth of flow -- The birth of design -- Animals on the move -- Witnessing evolution -- Seeing beyond the trees and the forest -- Why hierarchy reins -- The fast and long meets the slow and short -- The design of academia -- The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture -- The design of history
Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow