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About_the_Author
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Albert-László Barabási is the Emil T. Hofman
Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, and teaches and directs
research on complex networks. His seminal and varied contributions have been
featured and acclaimed in the media, including Nature (cover story),
Science, Science News, the New York Times, USA
Today, the Washington Post, American Scientist,
Discover, BusinessWeek, National Geographic, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, and New Scientist. He has been
interviewed by BBC Radio, NPR, CBS, NBC, and ABC News, CNN, and many other media
outlets. Born and raised in Transylvania, he now lives in South Bend, Indiana.
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Description_of_LINKED
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- At the beginning of the 21st century, a maverick group
of scientists is discovering that all networks have a deep underlying order and
operate according to simple but powerful rules. Knowledge of the structure and
behavior of these networks illuminates everything from the vulnerability of
economies to the ways that diseases are spread. In Linked, László Barabási
takes us inside this unfolding network revolution. He traces the history of
connected systems, beginning with Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler¡¯s first
forays into graph theory in the late 1700s and culminating in biologists¡¯
development of cancer drugs based on a new understanding of cellular networks. Barabási introduces us to
modern-day ¡°cartographers¡± who, aided by super-computers, are mapping networks
in a variety of scientific disciplines. We find out why an obscure finding of
Einstein¡¯s could change the way we look at the networks in our own lives, and
even learn what it would take to bring down a terrorist organization like
al Qaeda. Engaging and authoritative, Linked provides an exciting preview of the
next century in science, guaranteed to be transformed by these amazing discoveries.
-Publisher
Description
- The first book to explore the
hot new science of networks and their impact on nature, business, medicine, and
everyday life. In the 1980's, James Gleick's Chaos introduced the world to
complexity. Now, Albert-László Barabási's Linked reveals the next major
scientific leap: the study of networks.
We've long suspected that we live in a small world, where everything is
connected to everything else. Indeed, networks are pervasive?from the human
brain to the Internet to the economy to our group of friends. These linkages, it
turns out, aren't random. All networks, to the great surprise of scientists,
have an underlying order and follow simple laws. Understanding the structure and
behavior of these networks will help us do some amazing things, from designing
the optimal organization of a firm to stopping a disease outbreak before it
spreads catastrophically. In Linked, Barabási, a physicist whose work has revolutionized the
study of networks, traces the development of this rapidly unfolding science and
introduces us to the scientists carrying out this pioneering work. These "new
cartographers" are mapping networks in a wide range of scientific disciplines,
proving that social networks, corporations, and cells are more similar than they
are different, and providing important new insights into the interconnected
world around us. This knowledge, says Barabási, can shed light on the robustness
of the Internet, the spread of fads and viruses, even the future of democracy.
Engaging and authoritative, Linked provides an exciting preview of the
next century in science, guaranteed to be transformed by these amazing
discoveries.
-Amazon
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Copyright (c) 2002 Albert-Laszlo Barabasi All rights reserved.
alb@nd.edu
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