In SMALL WORLD, Mark Buchanan tells the story of how a stunning discovery in complexity science is revolutionising the way we understand networks. 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 – concisely and engagingly – how scientists are putting this new insight to work. The discovery promises to change the way we see the web of relationships that weaves our lives together. What’s more, it may well provide the foundation for a new kind of physics that searches for the laws not of substance, but of pure form.
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