Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks - Softcover

Watts, Duncan

 
9780099444961: Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099444968 ISBN 13: 9780099444961
Verlag: Vintage, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

'Six degrees of separation' is a cliche, as is 'it's a small world', both cliches of the language and cliches of everyday experience. But it's also an intriguing idea with a long history and some surprising implications. We all live in tightly bonded social networks, yet linked to vast numbers of people more closely than we sometimes think. Scientists have begun to apply insights from the theoretical study of networks to understand forms as superficially different as social networks and electrical networks, computer networks and economic networks, and to show how common principles underlie them all.


Duncan J. Watts explores the science of networks and its implications, ranging from the Dutch tulipmania of the seventeenth century, the success of Harry Potter, the impact of September 11th on Manhattan, to the structure of the world wide web.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

An Australian, born in Canada, Duncan Watts currently teaches Sociology at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press; 1999).

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099444968
ISBN 13 
9780099444961
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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