Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do - Hardcover

Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo

 
9780525951605: Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Synopsis

The award-winning author of the best-selling Linked outlines a theory about how to predict behavior, drawing on seven years of research while demonstrating the mathematical properties of seemingly random events, from the spread of epidemics to the history of wars.

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About the Author

Albert-László Barabási is a pioneer of real-world network theory and author of the bestseller, Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. At 32, he was the youngest professor to be named the Emil T. Hofmann Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame and has won numerous awards for his work, including the FEBS Anniversary Prize for Systems Biology and the John von Neumann Medal for outstanding achievements. He currently lives in Boston and is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Network Science at Northeastern University.

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9780452297180: Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades

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ISBN 10:  0452297184 ISBN 13:  9780452297180
Publisher: Plume Books, 2011
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