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Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks

Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks

by Mark Buchanan (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Most of us have had the experience of running into a friend of a friend far away from home - and feeling that the world is somehow smaller than it should be. We usually write off such unlikely encounters as coincidence, even though they seem to happen with uncanny frequency. According to some physicists, it turns out that this 'small-world' phenomenon is no coincidence at all. Rather, it is a manifestation of a hidden and powerful design that binds the world together. The Internet, the brain, power-grids and the global economy are all networks that seem to have evolved a 'small-world' geometry - with properties independent of the nature of the things themselves. SMALL WORLD argues that this underlying pattern may be one of nature's greatest design tricks, and the book shows us how scientists are putting this new insight to work.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 May 2003
ISBN 10: 075381689X
ISBN 13: 9780753816899
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the prestigious Aventis (Science Book) Prize First popular book on the small-worlds phenomenon Written by a leading science writer - a former editor of Nature and New Scientist Based on an amazing discovery in complexity science 'Buchanan's gift is for synthesis and lucid exposition' New Statesman 'Buchanan excels at making abstract science real and easy for the general reader to understand' Scotsman 'A cogent and engaging description of recent developments in complex networks' Nature 'Packed with novel insights' Financial Times 'A useful and accessible introduction to a subject that's going to start having a lot more influence in the next few decades' Focus
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Aventis Prize for Science Books 2003.

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Good reviews coming in for this title: Some of the conclusions are truly surprising. FOCUS Enthralling DAILY MAIL Buchanan goes for the guts of numbers, the power laws that underlie every network from the Kevin Bacon game connecting Hollywood stars to worms' nervous systems. NEW SCIENTIST
Author Bio
Mark Buchanan has a PhD from the University of Virginia. Formerly an editor at Nature and New Scientist, he is now a science writer whose articles have appeared in numerous professional and general science magazines including Scientific American and New Scientist.