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Technology / Re: Can anyone recommend a book on Network Theory?
« on: 22/10/2007 13:28:20 »
There was a program on telly fairly recently in which a journalist attempted to create a demonstration of the 'six degrees of separation' by finding someone who would seem to be very remote (a Mongolian herdsman, as it happened) and then finding how many links there were between herself and the remote person. I think she found a shortest chain of seven or eight links. It seems to me that she would have had quite a hard time defining what a 'link' was, though. Relationships between people tend to be very complicated. However, I think that it as an interesting idea which reflects how people are, in some ways, becoming less remote from each other.
There was also a film - I think it might have been called 'Six Degrees of Separation' about a con man who claimed to be Sidney Poitiers' son. I don't remember much about it, though. Did anyone else see this film?
There was also a film - I think it might have been called 'Six Degrees of Separation' about a con man who claimed to be Sidney Poitiers' son. I don't remember much about it, though. Did anyone else see this film?