Recent Bookmarks, 02-Oct-2009

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
David Easley and Jon Kleinberg.
Free pre-publication draft of a book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.
“Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. Drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics, it describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected. … The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course entitled Networks that we teach at Cornell. The book, like the course, is designed at the introductory undergraduate level with no formal prerequisites.”
gml: Should be of interest to anyone who sees networks everywhere today. Graphically rich (and stunning), 19MB download, 828 pages. Thank you to Tim Finn at UMBC for his referring post.