Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

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-Lászl? Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, 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 brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.

How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-L?szl? Barab?si and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but understandable relationships. Linked: The New Science of Networks is his bright, accessible guide to the fundamentals underlying neurology, epidemiology, Internet traffic, and many other fields united by complexity.

Barab?si's gift for concrete, nonmathematical explanations and penchant for eccentric humor would make the book thoroughly enjoyable even if the content weren't engaging. But the results of Barab?si's research into the behavior of networks are deeply compelling. Not all networks are created equal, he says, and he shows how even fairly robust systems like the Internet could be crippled by taking out a few super-connected nodes, or hubs. His mathematical descriptions of this behavior are helping doctors, programmers, and security professionals design systems better suited to their needs. Linked presents the next step in complexity theory--from understanding chaos to practical applications. --Rob Lightner

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2009; Too much information for the common reader; The book "Linked" is very interesting and it is written so that the average person can follow it. However, the author describes every detail (it seems) of how he and his colleagues discovered the links, hubs, etc., and how they disproved...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-11-2009; Good Pop. Sci Book; I first came across Barabasi through a colleague who works in bioinformatics. Having read some of his technical papers, I was unaware that he had a popular book on his work. I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity of style. This is an...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-25-2009; A Fabulous Journey through the Theory and Applications of Network Science; Albert-László Barabási is a renowned scientist who has brought into the spotlight the science of networks, and at the same time he is a great writer who describes scientific discoveries in a way that make them sound like detective...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-30-2008; Networks everywhere - We are one; This book's author explores networks that exist in everything from Hollywood actors to cellular proteins and lets us into the private (and unexpectedly exciting and humorous) world of mathematicians and physics professors. The 80/20 rule...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-11-2009; Good Pop. Sci Book; I first came across Barabasi through a colleague who works in bioinformatics. Having read some of his technical papers, I was unaware that he had a popular book on his work. I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity of style. This is an...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2009; Too much information for the common reader; The book "Linked" is very interesting and it is written so that the average person can follow it. However, the author describes every detail (it seems) of how he and his colleagues discovered the links, hubs, etc., and how they disproved...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-22-2005; Jesus or Barabasi?; The book of Ecclesiastes says: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us."The discovery reported in this book is no exception. The mechanism of generating power...; read full review | report as inappropriate