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Linked: Networks from Biology to the World Wide Web
September 27, 2005
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi professor, physics, Notre Dame

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, a Notre Dame University physics professor, explores the relationships of various kinds of complex networks from cells and epidemics, to the World Wide Web, with a bit of 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' in between. In accessible language and with humor, Barabasi explains how seemingly unrelated types of networks, for example corporations, social networks, living organisms, are more similar than previously thought.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is the author of Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life.

Literature & Philosophy | Science & Nature
Biology | Internet | Mathematics
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Author: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Publisher: Plume (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
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