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Six degrees : the science of a connected age
Watts, Duncan J.
Adult Nonfiction 511.5 W
Watts, Duncan J.
Adult Nonfiction 511.5 W
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| Contents | Page |
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| Preface | p. 13 |
| Chapter 1 - The Connected Age | p. 19 |
| Emergence | p. 24 |
| Networks | p. 27 |
| Synchrony | p. 30 |
| The Road Less Traveled | p. 35 |
| The Small-World Problem | p. 37 |
| Chapter 2 - The Origins of a "New" Science | p. 43 |
| The Theory of Random Graphs | p. 43 |
| Social Networks | p. 47 |
| The Dynamics Matters | p. 50 |
| Departing From Randomness | p. 56 |
| Here Come the Physicists... | p. 61 |
| Chapter 3 - Small Worlds | p. 69 |
| With a Little Help from my Friends | p. 70 |
| From Cavemen to Solarians | p. 74 |
| Small Worlds | p. 78 |
| As Simple as Possible | p. 83 |
| The Real World | p. 92 |
| Chapter 4 - Beyond the Small World | p. 101 |
| Scale-Free Networks | p. 104 |
| The Rich Get Richer | p. 108 |
| Getting Rich Can be Hard | p. 111 |
| Reintroducing Group Structure | p. 114 |
| Affiliation Networks | p. 118 |
| Directors and Scientists | p. 121 |
| Complications | p. 125 |
| Chapter 5 - Search in Networks | p. 130 |
| So What did Milgram Really Show? | p. 132 |
| Is Six a Big or a Small Number? | p. 135 |
| The Small-World Search Problem | p. 139 |
| Sociology Strikes Back | p. 146 |
| Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks | p. 156 |
| Chapter 6 - Epidemics and Failures | p. 162 |
| The Hot Zone | p. 162 |
| Viruses in the Internet | p. 165 |
| The Mathematics of Epidemics | p. 168 |
| Epidemics in a Small World | p. 174 |
| Percolation Models of Disease | p. 183 |
| Networks, Viruses, and Microsoft | p. 187 |
| Failures and Robustness | p. 189 |
| Chapter 7 - Decisions, Delusions, and the Madness of Crowds | p. 195 |
| Tulip Economics | p. 196 |
| Fear, Greed, and Rationality | p. 198 |
| Collective Decisions | p. 201 |
| Information Cascades | p. 204 |
| Information Externalities | p. 207 |
| Coercive Externalities | p. 212 |
| Market Externalities | p. 213 |
| Coordination Externalities | p. 215 |
| Social Decision Making | p. 217 |
| Chapter 8 - Thresholds, Cascades, and Predictability | p. 220 |
| Threshold Models of Decisions | p. 221 |
| Capturing Differences | p. 226 |
| Cascades in Social Networks | p. 229 |
| Cascades and Percolation | p. 235 |
| Phase Transitions and Cascades | p. 239 |
| Crossing the Chasm | p. 241 |
| A Nonlinear View of History | p. 244 |
| Power to the People | p. 248 |
| Robustness Revisited | p. 250 |
| Chapter 9 - Innovation, Adaptation, and Recovery | p. 253 |
| The Toyota-Aisin Crisis | p. 254 |
| Markets and Hierarchies | p. 260 |
| Industrial Divides | p. 264 |
| Ambiguity | p. 267 |
| The Third Way | p. 270 |
| Coping with Ambiguity | p. 273 |
| Multiscale Networks | p. 278 |
| Recovering from Disaster | p. 284 |
| Chapter 10 - The End of the Beginning | p. 290 |
| September 11 | p. 292 |
| Lessons for a Connected Age | p. 299 |
| Further Reading | p. 307 |
| Bibliography | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 357 |
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