LINKED: The New Science of Networks
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Jennifer Frangos, . . Perseus, $26 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-7382-0667-7
Information, disease, knowledge and just about everything else is disseminated through a complex series of networks made up of interconnected hubs, argues University of Notre Dame physics professor Barabási. These networks are replicated in every facet of human life: "There is a path between any two neurons in our brain, between any two companies in the world, between any two chemicals in our body. Nothing is excluded from this highly interconnected web of life." In accessible prose, Barabási guides readers through the mathematical foundation of these networks. He shows how they operate on the Power Law, the notion that "a few large events carry most of the action." The Web, for example, is "dominated by a few very highly connected nodes, or
Reviewed on: 05/27/2002
Genre: Nonfiction