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Original Title:	Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
ISBN:	0452284392 (ISBN13: 9780452284395)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.barabasilab.com/LinkedBook/book.html

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

Albert-László Barabási

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 4467 Users | 271 Reviews

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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-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, 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 and the Erdos–Rényi model brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future and of experiments in statistical mechanics on the internet, all vital parts of what would eventually be called the Barabási–Albert model.

 

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Title	:	Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Author	:	Albert-László Barabási
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	April 29th 2003 by Plume (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Business. Sociology

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Linked is written in an engaging way, and the ideas are all simplified well for laypeople. I particularly liked that it was structured in the same way as the networks it describes -- this is smart, and subtle (though maybe lost on a good chunk of its audience). I would definitely recommend it for someone who has little to no experience working with or understanding complex networks. People in business in particular could probably get something out of it. However, the most glaring feature of this

Excellent book which really distils the concepts of networks and the current research happening in this area as well as a great recount of the history underlying the progress made in the field. Doesn't skip out on the science and explains it at a very accessible level and gives a good conceptual understanding of what the researchers are trying to achieve as well as the implications. Erdos and Renyi did incredible work on random networks but it doesn't fit in with the real life network structure

A good non-fiction book for people who would like to be introduced to network science without learning rigorous mathematical formulae. Also, this book can be useful for network science researchers in order to formulate their scientific ideas about network science in laymen terms.



Sharp logic and good writing, backed up by sound proof.

I liked this very much. The main thesis is that science up to fairly recently has been Platonic (which this book instead, and I think mistakenly, characterises as reductionist) and therefore fixated on describing things and their forms. This idea is that if you have a picture you want to study you will learn all that there is to learn about it by pulling all of the jigsaw pieces apart and studying these individual pieces in detail. As String Theory shows, we can always speculate on smaller and

Similar to "The Tipping Point" -- it's more academic and uses examples beyond social settings, and takes some of the same ideas further in more depth. Not quite as accessible as The Tipping Point, but also more realistic and less 'romanticizing' of the science.