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Networks
An Introduction
Mark Newman
784 pages
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120 line illustrations, 4 colour plates
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246x189mm
978-0-19-920665-0
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Hardback
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25 March 2010
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- Highly active field
- No general text book in the field at present
- Brings together results from many different disciplines
- Will appeal to people from a broad range of backgrounds
- Deliberately paced to appeal to a non-technical readership
The scientific study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on a large scale, and the development of a variety of new theoretical tools has allowed us to extract new knowledge from many different kinds of networks. The study of networks is broadly interdisciplinary and important developments have occurred in many fields, including mathematics, physics, computer and information sciences, biology, and the social
sciences. This book brings together for the first time the most important breakthroughs in each of these fields and presents them in a coherent fashion, highlighting the strong interconnections between work in different areas.
Subjects covered include the measurement and structure of networks in many branches of science, methods for analyzing network data, including methods developed in physics, statistics, and sociology, the fundamentals of graph theory, computer algorithms, and spectral methods, mathematical models of networks, including random graph models and generative models, and theories of dynamical processes taking place on networks.Readership: Advanced undergraduates, beginning graduate
students and researchers; also the software and high-tech industries, including biotech.
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Mark Newman, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
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"Networks accomplishes two key goals: It provides a comprehensive introduction and presents the theoretic backbone of network science. [] The book is balanced in its presentation of theoretical concepts, computational techniques, and algorithms. The level of difficulty increases which each chapter [which] makes the book particularly valuable to physics students who wish to acquire a solid foundation based on their knowledge of basic linear algebra, calculus, and differential equations." - Physics Today, 2011 "Newman has written a wonderful book that gives an extensive overview of the broadly interdisciplinary network-related developments that have occured in many fields, including mathematics, physics, computer science, biology,
and the social sciences ... Overall, a valuable resource covering a wide-randing field." - Choice "Likely to become the standard introductory textbook for the study of networks." - Computing Reviews "Overall, this is an excellent textbook for the growing field of networks. It is cleverly written and suitable as both an introduction for undergraduate students (particularly Parts 1 to 3) and as a roadmap for graduate students. [] Being highly self-contained, computer scientists and professionals from other fields can also use the book—in fact, the author himself is a physicist. In short, this book is a delight for the inquisitive mind." - Computing Reviews "This book brings together, for the first time, the
most important breakthroughs in each of these fields and presents them in a coherent fashion, highlighting the strong connections between work in different subject areas." - Cern Courier
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1: Introduction
2: Technological Networks
3: Social Networks
4: Information Networks
5: Biological Networks
6: Mathematics of Networks
7: Measures and Metrics
8: The Large-scale Structure of Networks
9: Basic Concepts of Algorithms
10: Fundamental Network Algorithms
11: Matrix Algorithms and Graph Partitioning
12: Random Graphs
13: Generalized Random Graphs
14: Models of Network Formation
15: Other Network Models
16: Percolation and Network Resilience
17: Epidemics on Networks
18: Dynamical Systems on Networks
19: Network Search
References
Index
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