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Sat, 17 May 2003
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
I've been reading my way through various books on network science. Duncan Watts' Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age was the last one on my list. Six Degrees covered more ideas than any of the other books that I've read. Small worlds , scale free networks, and preferential attachment were already familiar to me. Percolation theory, information cascades, and multiscale networks were not. Watts does a good job of storytelling, although I found the prose in Linked to be more engaging. But Six Degrees made up for that by going well beyond Linked and Nexus in terms of the ideas.
There were some stories that stuck out to me, such as Judith Kleinfeld's investigation of Milgram's small world results and the story of Toyota-Asin's disaster and extraordinary recovery.
There is also a nicely annotated further reading section including difficulty indicators.
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