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Networks: A Very Short Introduction No.335
出版社： Oxford University Press
書林書號：
30199026
作者：
Caldarelli, Guido/ Catanzaro, Michele
定價：
423
會員價：
$402
ISBN：
9780199588077
出版年份：
2012
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
144
  • 本書介紹
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.

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