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by M Buchanan (Author) "IN THE SPRING of 1998, the London editorial offices of Nature received a manuscript having a somewhat unusual character ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 235 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; 1 edition (9 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393041530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393041538
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behaviour? This 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 Internet or the firing neurons in the brain. Highlighting the research behind network theory, Mark 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" provides an introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives together.
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3.0 out of 5 stars My world just got smaller, 22 Aug 2002
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Mark Buchanan does an excellent job of explaining the Small World phenomenon in this readable and well balanced account of modern network theory.

He begins by explaining Stanley Milgram's social network experiment of the sixties which revelaed that there are rarely more than six steps between any two people on the planet - now known as the principle of six degrees of separation. He then goes on to explain the clustering tendency of connections in our social networks, in the web and in nature.

Loose connections step from one cluster to the next and highly connected people become the aristocrats of complex networks. Add in the economic principle of the rich getting richer, apply Pareto's 80:20 rule and the next thing you know you are heading for possible solutions to the world AIDS epidemic.

I found the ideas in this book utterly convincing and finished it optimistic and excited about the possibilities of this new area of understanding.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Small world - big ideas, 7 Feb 2009
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This review is from: Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks (Paperback)
The book's primary goal is explaining the Small World phenomenon as a modern network theory.

Buchanan begins by explaining Stanley Milgram's social network experiment of the sixties which revealed that there are rarely more than six steps between any two people on the planet - now known as the principle of six degrees of separation - by which popular culture has forever attached to actor Kevin Bacon. He then goes on to explain the clustering tendency of connections in our social networks, in the web and in nature.

Loose connections bridge from one cluster to the next. The author moves beyond network modeling to show how small world theory can be used to understand a diverse range of phenomena from the numbers and location of tributaries to major rivers through to how the AIDS virus spread.

The ideas in the book are as powerful as chaos theory was a decade ago. explaining the Small World phenomenon in this readable and well balanced account of modern network theory.
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