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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks

Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks

Buchanan, Mark

Paperback

Physics

ISBN10: 0393324427
ISBN13: 9780393324426
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jun 1 2003
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes the global economy catches cold, read this book, writes John L. Casti (Santa Fe Institute). This cogent and engaging (Nature) work presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of small-worlds theory--the idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the information highway or the firing of neurons in the brain. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and social scientists are working to decipher this complex organizational system, for it may yield a blueprint of dynamic interactions within our physical as well as social worlds.

Highlighting groundbreaking research behind network theory, Mark Buchanan's graceful, lucid, nontechnical and entertaining prose (Mark Granovetter) documents the mounting support among various disciplines for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its practical applications to diverse problems--from the volatile global economy or the Human Genome Project to the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage. Nexus is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together.

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