This might be one of the best xkcd comic strips ever. Wow!
I approve!
(Tip of the cap to Justin Howell.)
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My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College.
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- I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously, I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow in Somerville College. I am also a die-hard fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. See my website for more information about me. You can also find me on Facebook and Twitter (@masonporter), though I'm much easier to stalk by other means. If you want power law or Zachary Karate Club swag, take a look at my Power Law Shop. I am also involved with the Legends of Caltech movie and co-edited Legends of Caltech III.
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I had that left open in a tab, and was going to get around to bringing it to your attention sometime this weekend (unless, of course, I forgot).
How can I read a comic like that without thinking of you?
Indeed! It's definitely no surprise that I really like that one.
Awesome.
This would have been meaningless to me until about a week ago.
I'm currently teaching myself random graph theory via Bollobas' 1985 book and a paper by Albert and Barabasi (Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks, 2001).
When I came to your talk at Duke a few months ago, I didn't realize how applicable the topic would be to my research!
There is a 1998 updated edition of the Bollobas book. (Actually, I specifically have that book on my purchase list. I need to get it while Springer books are still on sale. I tried to buy it a couple of weeks ago, but the store I checked was out, so I'll need to order it online.)
The AB paper is from 02. :) If you want to get a broader view of that stuff from the physics point of view, I recommend Mark Newman's 2003 article.
How is this stuff showing up in your research? That sounds really neat and quite a different application than usual.
Thanks for the suggestions!
The A-B paper was published in '02, you're right -- but I got it from ArXiv, to which it was submitted in '01. That's the date on my copy, so that's what I went with.
Is the "updated version" you refer to Modern Graph Theory, published in 1998 (and apparently revised in 2002)?
I am using Random Graphs from 1985 right now.
Yeah, it does look like there are two different books. A lot of stuff has been done on random graphs since 1985, much of which built on a seminal 1995 paper.
I can't find the newer edition in the Duke libraries, but did pick up Modern Graph Theory (by Bollobas), an entry in the Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics.
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