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Untitled 11 Jun 2012 | 06:37 pm
Welcome to the website of Samuel Arbesman. I’m an applied mathematician and network scientist and am currently a Senior Scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a fellow at the Institute fo...
Now Blogging Over at Wired Science! 5 Jan 2012 | 07:18 am
Until further notice, this blog is going into hibernation mode, as I have started blogging over at Wired Science! The new blog is called Social Dimension and is about how to quantify the anthropic par...
Now Blogging Over at Wired Science! 5 Jan 2012 | 01:18 am
Until further notice, this blog is going into hibernation mode, as I have started blogging over at Wired Science! The new blog is called Social Dimension and is about how to quantify the anthropic par...
The Greatest Intersection 6 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
In Ithaca there exists the best intersection ever — where Penny Lane meets Lois Lane: It turns out that this is not the only Lois Lane. There are others, such as this one, in the suburbs of Detroit. ...
The Greatest Intersection 6 Dec 2011 | 05:00 am
In Ithaca there exists the best intersection ever — where Penny Lane meets Lois Lane: It turns out that this is not the only Lois Lane. There are others, such as this one, in the suburbs of Detroit. ...
Bill Miller’s Mutual Fund Streak 24 Nov 2011 | 04:13 am
With the recent announcement that Bill Miller will be stepping down from running Legg Mason Value Trust fund, a number of people have used this as an opportunity to re-examine his incredible fifteen y...
Bill Miller’s Mutual Fund Streak 23 Nov 2011 | 10:13 pm
With the recent announcement that Bill Miller will be stepping down from running Legg Mason Value Trust fund, a number of people have used this as an opportunity to re-examine his incredible fifteen y...
Mechanical Turk, Dynamic Networks, and Cooperation 16 Nov 2011 | 10:43 am
In a fun paper recently published in PNAS, Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans, Dave Rand, Nicholas Christakis, and I explored how a dynamic social network affects c...
Mechanical Turk, Dynamic Networks, and Cooperation 16 Nov 2011 | 04:43 am
In a fun paper recently published in PNAS, Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans, Dave Rand, Nicholas Christakis, and I explored how a dynamic social network affects c...
America’s Age, Empires, and Mathematics 1 Nov 2011 | 06:47 am
I had a piece in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe this weekend about understanding the nature of empires and civilizations, seen through the lens of mathematics, entitled How Long Will America La...
