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

by Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo

• ISBN13: 9780452284395
• ISBN10: 0452284392
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-29
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

A cocktail party.' A terrorist cell.' Ancient bacteria.' An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 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. 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 brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.

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.

Table of Contents

The First Link: Introduction	p. 1
The Second Link: The Random Universe	p. 9
The Third Link: Six Degrees of Separation	p. 25
The Fourth Link: Small Worlds	p. 41
The Fifth Link: Hubs and Connectors	p. 55
The Sixth Link: The 80/20 Rule	p. 65
The Seventh Link: Rich Get Richer	p. 79
The Eighth Link: Einstein's Legacy	p. 93
The Ninth Link: Achilles' Heel	p. 109
The Tenth Link: Viruses and Fads	p. 123
The Eleventh Link: The Awakening Internet	p. 143
The Twelfth Link: The Fragmented Web	p. 161
The Thirteenth Link: The Map of Life	p. 179
The Fourteenth Link: Network Economy	p. 199
The Last Link: Web Without a Spider	p. 219
Afterlink: Hierarchies and Communities	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 239
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 281
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