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Nature 428, 367-368 (25 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428367a
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Senior Researcher in theoretical chemistry / physics
- Italian Institute of Technology
- Lecce, Italy
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Boston, MA
The physics of crowds
Steven Strogatz1
BOOK REVIEWED-Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball
William Heinemann: 2004. 644 pp. £25
To be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US
Psychohistory is a remarkably accurate theory of humans' collective behaviour. It predicts the rise and fall of political movements and empires, and even the sweep of civilization itself.
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