Kresge 194, W00, Logs

3W, 19 Jan 2000

Alison introduced the basic ideas of small worlds: a directed (or undirected) graph, distance between two nodes, size of graph, exm: size = 6.

In the following discussion, we speculated about applications to:

  • spread of AIDS epidemic
  • world wide web
  • telepathy depending on distance

Revised 22 Jan 2000 by Ralph