Six degrees of separation
See also: Six degrees of separation (homonymy)
The six degrees of separation are an idea imagined by the Hungarian Frigyes Karinthy in 1929. Taking again the vocabulary of the Six degrees of freedom which one meets in mechanics, this theoretical idea evokes the possibility that any person on the sphere can be connected to any other through a chain of individual relations including/understanding with more the five other links.
This theory was taken again in 1967 by Stanley Milgram through the study of the small world.
This creed made also good weather in romantic literature of the 20th century and was taken again by the Cinéma Hollywood IEN.
This theory finds an application in the Règle of the three clicks.
Cinema
- Six degrees of separation , film of Fred Schepisi with Will Smith and Donald Sutherland (1993).
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