December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
14h 44m
English
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns on conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
—Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
This didn’t start out to be a book.
It started out simply as an attempt to distill what we know about networks after 35 years of beating on the problem. What principles, rules of thumb, guidelines, and so on could be distilled from what we had seen independent of politics, and religion, and even the constraints of technology. What could be said with as little qualification as possible? Were there a few constraints that could be introduced that would allow us to do a great deal more? What did we really know that didn’t change? What some ...
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