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Paths = Why is life filled with so many detours?

This open access 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.

Paths is based on the authors recent research in the area of paths on networks, which points to the possible birth of the new science of “paths” as a natural consequence ‘and extension) of the science of “networks.”

The approach is essentially story-based, supported by scientific findings, interdisciplinary approaches, and at times, even philosophical points of view. It alsoincludes short illustrative anecdotes showing the amazing similarities between real-world paths and discusses their applications in science and everyday life.

Paths will appeal to network scientists and to anyone interested in popular science. By helping readers to step away from the “networked” view of many recent popular scientific books and start to think of longer paths instead of individual links, it sheds light on these problems from a genuinely new perspective.

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: Birkhäuser Cham., 2021

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XXV, 86hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9783030475451

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Popular Science in Mathematics Publish with us

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Reveals the hidden world of paths in complex networks as never seen before Invites readers to discover how humans and other things relate to each other when navigating through the networked environment Provides a new perspective on network science: the connecting structure is only a basis of networks – how the connections are navigated is what really counts Includes brief interdisciplinary examples in math (elementary graph theory), history, biology and aesthetics

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András Gulyás , Zalán Heszberger , József Biró

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-47545-1

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47545-1

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