Linked

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All of these are networks, and all are part of a surprising scientific revolution. In "Linked," Albert-László Barabási, the country's leading expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, businesses, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Barabási demonstrates that a comprehensive understanding of network science will one day enable us to design top-notch companies, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick and the Erdős-Rényi model brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, "Linked" tells the story of the true science of the future and experiments in statistical mechanics on the internet, all essential parts of what would eventually be referred to as B.