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  • Hardcover: 266 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (27 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0691005419
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691005416
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Informally written and aimed at a wide audience, this book shows how mathematics yields new vistas on ubiquitous and seemingly familiar aspects of our world.


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Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. This text provides an exploration of what conditions a small world can arise under in any kind of network.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Rewarding, but not easy, reading, 17 Dec 2000
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Watts' innovative study of the small world phenomena has helped to revitalise this field of research, which had until recently been considered trivial in academic circles, material for anecdotes, rather than an important feature of network organisation. Watts shows how and why networks can be organised along small world principles, with examples as diverse as the spread of diseases (or gossip) through a population, the connectivity of worm's neural structures, and, infamously, the Kevin Bacon Game. While the book starts at a gentle pace, the mathematical detail soon becomes fairly dense, especially for those with little post-school mathematical training. However, the reader's perseverance is rewarded by Watts, who has provided a range of applications of small world theory, making this a must for anyone planning to study network organisation.
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