Networks
been reading this book Nexus, by Mark Buchanan, which ThaTha sent me. He’s talking about the Math of “small-world graphs,” a mathematical theory that can describe Networks. Here’s a copyright violation, I mean Free Speech.
Social Networks turn out to be nearly identical in their architecture to the World Wide Web, the network of Web pages connected by hypertext links. Each of these networks shares deep structural properties with the food webs of any ecosystem and with the network of business links underlying any nation’s economic activity. Incredibly, all these networks possess precisely the same organization as the network of connected neurons in the human brain and the network of interacting molecules that underlies the living cell.
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[...] There are quite a few books which cover this in more detail, and I’ll quote from Nexus by Mark Buchanan here, Social Networks turn out to be nearly identical in their architecture to the World Wide Web, the network of Web pages connected by hypertext links. Each of these networks shares deep structural properties with the food webs of any ecosystem and with the network of business links underlying any nation’s economic activity. Incredibly, all these networks possess precisely the same organization as the network of connected neurons in the human brain and the network of interacting molecules that underlies the living cell. [...]