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Strogatz is an applied mathematician who is a leader in contemporary interdisciplinary work on social networks and other structures found in the social and natural worlds. We used his book, Sync, about how spontaneous order emerges out of chaos in my College 60, "Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software." It explains, for example, how a big crowd can coordinate random clapping into a rhythmic clap-clap-clap even though the member of the audience have mostly local knowledge of the rhythm of nearby clappers.
Strogatz is an applied mathematician who is a leader in contemporary interdisciplinary work on social networks and other structures found in the social and natural worlds. We used his book, Sync, about how spontaneous order emerges out of chaos in my College 60, "Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software." It explains, for example, how a big crowd can coordinate random clapping into a rhythmic clap-clap-clap even though the member of the audience have mostly local knowledge of the rhythm of nearby clappers.
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