Nexus
by Mark Buchanan · first published 2002
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"As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation.". "How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behavior? In this incisive insightful work Mark Buchanan 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 deci
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…point: Network Science: Theory and Applications[2] Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means[3] Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age[4] The Wisdom of Crowds[5] Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks[6] Diffusion of Innovations[7] Of course - being that Network Science is a multidisciplinary field, that touches a lot of other areas - it can…
on “An Introduction to Graph Theory and Network Science” ↗Also excellent from the same author: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquity-Catastrophes-Happen-Mark-Buch... http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Worlds-Groundbreaking-Science-Ne...
on “A chilling mathematical model of inequality” ↗…Art of War 5) Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action 6) Steven Johnson's Emergence 7) Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel 8) Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything 9) Mark Buchanan's Nexus 10) C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain Taken together, these books cover just about everything there is to know about the sciences, about human history, human nature and how to understand and communicate…
on “What books would you recommend reading? Why?” ↗This makes me remember a passage I read in Nexus by Mark Buchanan (good book, read it!), where someone did an experiment to try to find the root of "the rich get richer". They construct a simulation of an economy, seed the participants in it with a…
on “Are the smart getting richer?” ↗