Networks : a very short introduction / Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro.

By:

Caldarelli, Guido

Contributor(s):

Catanzaro, Michele

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 335.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: xv, 122 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199588077 (pbk.)
0199588074 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

System analysis -- Popular works

DDC classification:

003.72 CAL

Contents:

1. A network point of view on the world -- 2. A fruitful approach -- 3. A world of networks -- 4. Connected and close -- 5. Superconnectors -- 6. Emergence of networks -- 7. Digging deeper into networks -- 8. Perfect storms in networks -- 9. All the world's a net; or not.

Summary: Networks are involved in many aspects of everyday life, from food webs in ecology and the spread of pandemics to social networking and public transport. This book explores the basics of network theory to understand the science of complexity and its importance, using examples from nature, technology, and society, and history.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	003.72 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100659649

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index.

Networks are involved in many aspects of everyday life, from food webs in ecology and the spread of pandemics to social networking and public transport. This book explores the basics of network theory to understand the science of complexity and its importance, using examples from nature, technology, and society, and history.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

1 A network point of view on the world
2 A fruitful approach
3 A world of networks
4 Connected and close
5 Superconnectors
6 Emergence of networks
7 Digging deeper into networks
8 Perfect storms on networks
9 All the world's a net. Or not?
Further Reading

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.