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Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]
Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]

Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]

Author: 
Guido Caldarelli; Michele Catanzaro
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  • Considers the basic elements of network theory and its applications
  • Uses examples from everyday life - from nature, technology, society, and history - to explain the basic theory
  • An engaging introduction for anyone trying to understand complex networks

  
From ecosystems to Facebook, from the Internet to the global financial market, some of the most important and familiar natural systems and social phenomena are based on a networked structure. It is impossible to understand the spread of an epidemic, a computer virus, large-scale blackouts, or massive extinctions without taking into account the network structure that underlies all these phenomena.
   
In this Very Short Introduction, Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro discuss the nature and variety of networks, using everyday examples from society, technology, nature, and history to explain and understand the science of network theory. They show the ubiquitous role of networks; how networks self-organize; why the rich get richer; and how networks can spontaneously collapse. They conclude by highlighting how the findings of complex network theory have very wide and important applications in genetics, ecology, communications, economics, and sociology. 

Index: 

1: A network point of view on the world
2: A fruitful approach
3: A world of networks
4: Connected and close
5: Superconnectors
6: Emergence of networks
7: Digging deeper into networks
8: Perfect storms on networks
9: All the world's a net. Or not?
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About the author: 

Guido Caldarelli, Professor of Theoretical Physics in the IMT Alti Studi Lucca and a member of Complex System Institute of the National Research Council, Italy, and Michele Catanzaro, Freelance journalist
 
 
Guido Caldarelli is Full Professor in Theoretical Physics in the IMT Alti Studi Lucca and a member of Complex System Institute of the National Research Council, Italy. He is the author of about 100 scientific papers and an expert of scale-free networks and self-similar phenomena, especially of the applications of network theory to evaluation of systemic risk in financial and economic systems. He has worked at the University 'Sapienza' in Rome, the University of Manchester, and the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the textbook Scale-Free Networks (OUP, 2007).
 
Michele Catanzaro is a freelance journalist based in Barcelona, Spain. He collaborates with media in the UK (Nature, PhysicsWorld), Spain (El Periódico), and Italy (Le Scienze). He holds a PhD on Dynamics in Complex Networks by the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). He has published several scientific papers in international journals and his work as a journalist has been recognized by three prizes in Spain.

Product details

ISBN : 9780199588077

Author: 
Guido Caldarelli; Michele Catanzaro
Pages
136 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Oct 2012
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]

Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]

Networks: A Very Short Introduction [#335]