Name: Linked
Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9780738206677

Albert-Lszl Barabsi

Discusses the connections between business, science, information, disease, knowledge--just about everything--and the hubs and complex networks that create an interconnected web of life.

The New Science of Networks

Linked

Albert-laszlo Barabasi

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-László Barabási, 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. Barabási 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–Rényi 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 Barabási–Albert model.

How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

Jowanza Joseph

This book was great, it would have been even better if I was not informed on the subject.  I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn some aspect of networks.

Chris Aldrich

Some generally solid overview of the earlier days of network science. Barabasi is a pretty solid general science writer and makes most of his ideas relatively clear. I'm hoping this is a good intro to some of the background for his new textbook on network science.

While some pieces and ideas seem dated, this was generally enjoyable without getting too deep into the weeds. Naturally there are many sections that could stand for updates, even just a decade or more later.

Albert-László Barabási

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.

Linked The New Science of Networks

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