Book Details

Paths Why is life filled with so many detours?

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-47545-1

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This book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn. Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in large networked structures. It also shows the amazing similarity in the ways humans and other – even nonliving – things navigate in a complex environment, to allow readers to easily grasp how paths emerge in many walks of life, and how they are navigated.


Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Popular Science in Mathematics, network science, graph theory, path, shortest path, internet, brain, routing policy, social networks, artificial networks, computer networks, road networks