History After the Death of the Witnesses

Zvi Lotker ()
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Zvi Lotker: Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Engineering

Chapter Chapter 9 in History by Algorithms, 2025, pp 161-177 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapter, we showed how we can construct a rough approximation of the social network from the number of people in a society. In this chapter, we will explore how human lives influence history. We are interested in the fact that for most events, no survivors are left to tell the narrative first-hand after roughly 70 years. Those who do survive are old, frail, and possibly unreliable. Therefore, there is a big difference between short-term history—a history where witnesses are still alive—and a history where all witnesses are dead, and we can no longer ask for a first-hand account of the events, see Fig. 9.1.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93627-2_9

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