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Estrada, Ernesto, 1966-

A first course in network theory / Professor Ernesto Estrada, Professor in Mathematics and Chair in Complexity Science, University of Strathclyde, UK, Dr. Philip A. Knight, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, UK. - First edition. - United Kingdom: Oxford University Press; 2015. - ix, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to network theory -- General concepts in network theory -- How to prove it -- Data analysis and manipulation -- Algebraic concepts in network theory -- Spectra of adjacency matrices -- The network Laplacian -- Classical physics analogies -- Degree distributions -- Clustering coefficients of networks -- Random models of networks -- Matrix functions -- Fragment-based measures -- Classical node centrality -- Spectral node centrality -- Quantum physics analogies -- Global properties of networks I -- Global properties of networks II -- Communicability in networks -- Statistical physics analogies -- Communities in networks.

ISBN: 9780198726456 (hbk.) 0198726457 (hbk.) 9780198726463 (pbk.) 0198726465 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2014955860

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB4D2867 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016954040 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
System analysis.
Network analysis (Planning)
Graph theory.

LC Class. No.: Q295.E83 2015 T57.85 / .E87 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 003.7/2