
In "The Rules of Contagion," epidemic expert Adam Kucharski reveals why things - from diseases to misinformation - spread. Named among "Best Science Books of 2020" by major publications, this timely guide sold 18,000 hardbacks during lockdown. What invisible patterns connect pandemics to viral tweets?
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A teenage prankster's computer virus spreading through floppy disks. A doctor's mosquito theorem that would save millions. A market crash that wiped out Nobel Prize winners' fortunes. What connects these seemingly unrelated events? They all follow the same mathematical rules-rules that govern how everything from diseases to ideas to violence ripples through our interconnected world. Long before COVID-19 made "reproduction numbers" dinner table conversation, mathematicians and epidemiologists were quietly mapping the invisible architecture of contagion, discovering that bank failures, viral tweets, and measles outbreaks share a common DNA.
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