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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 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. Buchanan documents mounting support for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its multiple applications to diverse problems - whether explaining the volatile global economy or the Human Genome Project, the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage.
Nexus is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together."--BOOK JACKET.
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
2003, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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June 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
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Lian jie: hun dun, fu za zhi hou, zui ju kai chuang xing de "xiao shi jie" li lun
2003, Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
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Nexus: Perché la natura, la società, l'economia, la comunicazione funzionano allo stesso modo
2003, Mondadori
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