Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected AgeW. W. Norton & Company, 17 feb 2004 - 384 pagine The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their mysterious workings. From epidemics of disease to outbreaks of market madness, from people searching for information to firms surviving crisis and change, from the structure of personal relationships to the technological and social choices of entire societies, Watts weaves together a network of discoveries across an array of disciplines to tell the story of an explosive new field of knowledge, the people who are building it, and his own peculiar path in forging this new science. |
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... DISEASE 183 NETWORKS , VIRUSES , AND MICROSOFT 187 FAILURES AND ROBUSTNESS 189 CHAPTER 7 : Decisions , Delusions , and the Madness of Crowds 195 TULIP ECONOMICS 196 FEAR , GREED , AND RATIONALITY 198 COLLECTIVE DECISIONS 201 INFORMATION ...
... , friendships , rumors , disease , fads , firms , and financial crises . If this particular period in the world's history had to be characterized in any simple way , it might be as one that is more highly , more globally , and PREFACE.
... disease , cultural fads , financial crises , and organizational innovation , that the science of networks attempts to understand . Both these stories run in parallel throughout the book , but some chapters emphasize one over the other ...
... disease become epidemics , or new ideas become crazes ? How do wild speculative bubbles emerge out of the investment strategies of otherwise sensible individuals , and when they burst , how does their damage spread throughout a ...
... diseases , rumors , ideas , or social unrest - propagate through a human population . And if the same six degrees property also happened to be true of nonhuman net- works , like biological oscillators for instance , then it might be ...
Sommario
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Small Worlds | 69 |
Beyond the Small World | 101 |
Search in Networks | 130 |
Epidemics and Failures | 162 |
Decisions Delusions | 195 |
Thresholds Cascades | 220 |
Innovation Adaptation | 253 |
The End of the Beginning | 290 |
The World Gets Smaller | 307 |
FURTHER READING | 313 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 347 |
INDEX | 363 |