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Complex systems:  Romanesque networks

Steven H. Strogatz1

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Newly won evidence shows that many real-world network systems obey a power-law scaling, just as if they were fractal shapes. Could this be the harbinger of a new architectural law for complex systems?

At lunch a few weeks ago, a colleague abruptly pulled a massive vegetable from his briefcase and passed it around the table. He was offering the rest of us a head of Romanesque broccoli — to ponder, not to eat.

  1. Steven H. Strogatz is at the Center for Applied Mathematics and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 212 Kimball Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1503, USA.
    e-mail: Email: strogatz@cornell.edu

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