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.
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.
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.
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).
ReplyDeleteHow can I read a comic like that without thinking of you?
Indeed! It's definitely no surprise that I really like that one.
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ReplyDeleteThis 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.)
ReplyDeleteThe 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!
ReplyDeleteThe 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)?
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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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