
Linked
How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Albert-laszlo Barabasi(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 24. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-465-08573-6 (ISBN)
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. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Barabasi shows that grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allow us to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick and the Erdos-Renyi model brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future and of experiments in statistical mechanics on the internet, all vital parts of what would eventually be called the Barabasi-Albert model.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-08573-6 (9780465085736)
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Person
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the centre for Complex Network Research. He is also an associate member of the centre of Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.