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9780452297180

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780452297180

  • ISBN10:

    0452297184

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-05-31
  • Publisher: Plume
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $16.00

Summary

The bestselling author of Linkedreturns with a ground breaking new theory that will enthrall fans of The Tipping Point Can we scientifically predict our future? It's a mystery that has nagged scientists for perhaps thousand of years. Now Albert-L#xE1;szl#xF3; Barab#xE1;si-the award-winning author of the sleeper hit Linked- explains how the digital age has yielded a massive, previously unavailable data set that proves the daily pattern of human activity isn't random, it's "bursty." We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. Compellingly illustrated with the account of a bloody medieval crusade in sixteenth-century Transylvania and the modern tale of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI, Burstsreveals that we are far more predictable than we like to think.

Author Biography

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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