In hmolscience, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (1967-) (CR=8) is a Romanian-born American physicist noted for 2002 Linked: the New Science of Networks, wherein he collates the work of thinkers such as Stanley Milgram, on six degrees of separation, Mark Granovetter, on weak ties, Duncan Watts, on synchronized cricket chirping, his co-author Steven Strogatz, Malcolm Gladwell, on hubs and connectors, and Vilfredo Pareto, and his 80/20 wealth distribution principle, to outline a semblance of a network theory. [1]
Education
Barabasi completed his BS in physics and engineering in 1989 at the University of Bucharest, during which time he began publishing papers on chaos theory, his MS degree, under Hungarian statistical physicist Tamas Vicsek (Ѻ), at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and his PhD in 1994 in physics, supposedly on the subject of fractal concepts in surface growth (Ѻ), under Eugene Stanley at Boston University. Presently, he is a professor at Northeaster University, Boston.
Quotes | About
The following are praise, tribute, and or quotes about Barabasi:
“This book relies only occasionally on the analysis of chaos—a science initiated by Benoit Mandelbrot (1975) and Robert May (1976); in contrast, it relies heavily on the ideas of network science. Although it can be traced back to system theory which flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, network science really emerged in the late 1990s through the works of people such as Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2002), Sergei Maslov (2002), Steven Strogatz (2003) or Duncan Watts (2003).”
— Bertrand Roehner (2007), Driving Forces in Physical, Biological, and Socio-Economic Phenomena [2]
References
1. Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. (2003). Linked: the New Science of Networks. Basic Books.
2. Roehner, Bertrand. (2007). Driving Forces in Physical, Biological and Socio-Economic Phenomena: a Network Science Investigation of Social bonds and Interactions (Durkheim, pg. xi; book relies on, pg. 2; table 1.2, pg. 18; thermodynamics, 5+ pgs). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
● Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. (2010). Bursts: the Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do. Dutton.
External links
● Albert-Laszlo Barabasi – Wikipedia.
● Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (faculty) – Northeastern University.
