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Networks A Very Short Introduction

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What this book knows

Real-world networks — social, biological, technological — share hidden structural laws that make complexity navigable and fragility legible.

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mind-and-cognition

In order to understand social relations, the very concept of average may be useless — social magnitudes lack a characteristic scale.
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Disconnection of a single power line in Germany triggered blackouts as far as Portugal — integration produces systemic fragility.
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belonging

Very short chains connect apparently remote individuals — a common cocktail-party experience of discovering unexpected mutual connections.
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Having a happy friend increases the chance of being happy by 15 per cent — far more than earning $5,000 extra per year.
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ambition-and-status

Padgett and Ansell found the Medici's network position — not wealth or rhetoric — explained their rise to power in Renaissance Florence.
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Betweenness centrality measures the proportion of shortest paths crossing a node; by this measure, the Medici were the most central family.
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