May 15 2008
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The Small World
In 1929 a Hungarian author named Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories titled “Everything is Different.” One of these pieces was titled “Chains,” or “Chain-Links.” The story investigated in abstract, conceptual, and fictional terms, which are many of the problems that now captivate mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists within the field of network theory.
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