%0 Journal Article %1 willis %A Simkin, M.V. %A Roychowdhury, V.P. %D 2006 %K attachment d4.1 model models network physics preferetial tagora theory urn %T Re-inventing Willis %U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601192 %X Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We estimate that scientists are busy re-discovering America about 2/3 of time.

@article{willis, abstract = {Scientists often re-invent things which were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of biological genera, collected by Willis. We estimate that scientists are busy re-discovering America about 2/3 of time.}, added-at = {2006-12-01T16:29:10.000+0100}, author = {Simkin, M.V. and Roychowdhury, V.P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/211ff73ed92f9fcbd9f997ed83f7d17e9/andreab}, interhash = {5ad1969b5254f0914078145f9157ec62}, intrahash = {11ff73ed92f9fcbd9f997ed83f7d17e9}, keywords = {attachment d4.1 model models network physics preferetial tagora theory urn}, timestamp = {2007-04-10T15:18:57.000+0200}, title = {Re-inventing Willis}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601192}, year = 2006 }