9780199588077: Networks: A Very Short Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199588074 ISBN 13: 9780199588077
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

A brief introduction to basic network theory, explaining the science of complexity and its importance, using examples from nature, technology, and society, and history.

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About the Author

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.


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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199588074
ISBN 13 
9780199588077
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
144