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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World Book
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Foyles
Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and intensity. This introductory book on the new science of networks takes an interdisciplinary approach, using economics, sociology, computing, information science and applied mathematics to address fundamental questions about the links that connect us, and the ways that our decisions can have consequences for others.
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BookDepository
Networks, Crowds, and Markets : Hardback : Cambridge University Press : 9780521195331 : 0521195330 : 04 Dec 2010 : This introductory book on the new science of networks takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand many phenomena of modern society: the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the spread of news and information, and the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and intensity.
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Blackwell
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication...
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Pickabook
David Easley, Jon Kleinberg
- 0521195330
- 9780521195331
- Jon Kleinberg, David Easley
- 19 July 2010
- Cambridge University Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 744
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