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Ludwig von Bertalanffy, an Uncommon card
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ludwig von Bertalanffy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His ______ model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934, is still in use today.
Answer
mathematical. His mathematical model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934, is still in use today. From the Ludwig von Bertalanffy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ato Boldon. Ato Boldon 70 · Ludwig von Bertalanffy 65 · Marie Bashkirtseff 62 · Diogo Cão 58 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields.
- Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things.
- His mathematical model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934, is still in use today.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ludwig von Bertalanffy article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Ludwig von Bertalanffy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
