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Linked

How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

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| Paperback | 9780452284395

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Book Description

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate.

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adContinue

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It is a great book about the network applying on different fields of science.
The main line of the whole book is how author's research team discovered different versions of network model: from Random -> Clustering -> Scalefree model -> Modular Scalefree model
It also mentioned a ... (continue)

It is a great book about the network applying on different fields of science.
The main line of the whole book is how author's research team discovered different versions of network model: from Random -> Clustering -> Scalefree model -> Modular Scalefree model
It also mentioned a lot of networks in like cellular biology, economic, politics and (my favorite) terrorist group.
Though the book was written in late 90s and could not cover some latest result in network/complexity research, the book is still a worth-reading introduction to this new frontier of science!
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By the way, it seems in the footnote under Page 235, the number 2/14 should actually be 2/11, following formular
N(k)/[k!/(k-2)!2!] = 12/(12!/10!2!) = 12/(12x11/2) = 2/11

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八足 said on Apr 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

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Incredibly fashinating

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Valerio Schiavoni said on Dec 17, 2007 | Add your feedback

The author tells series of stories to uncover the mystery and the history of complex network analysis.

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Hung-Hsuan Chen (弘軒) said on Sep 10, 2011 | Add your feedback

Excellent introduction to network math

... though the introduction does not replace the math. Barabasi&friends proposed the scale-free model for building networks, so he knows what he is talking about.

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Alberto Cottica said on May 17, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback