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Mathematics University of Minnesota Minneapolis / /
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transportation / passenger travel / huge new infrastructure / railway systems / long distance travel / early railway networks / railway technology / rail systems / railway network / slow carrier / power law / social networks / high travel volumes / /
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British government / Statistical Society of London / Railway Department / Mathematics University of Minnesota Minneapolis / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Statistical Society / House of Lords / Gauge Commission / Andrew Odlyzko School / /
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Andrew Odlyzko / Henry Booth / Mark Casson / John Hawkshaw / Henri-Guillaume Desart / Samuel Laing / Claude-Louis Navier / Henry Carey / Hyde Clarke / John Herapath / John Macneill / Ernst Ravenstein / /
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economist / civil engineer / editor / engineer and physicist / translator / geographer / railway engineer / author / author and the translator / mathematical physicist / Treasurer / Porter / famous engineer and physicist / /
The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency of early railway networks Andrew Odlyzko School of Mathematics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA