Paths: Why is life filled with so many detours? - Softcover

Gulyás, András; Heszberger, Zalán; Biró, József

 
9783030475475: Paths: Why is life filled with so many detours?
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3030475476 ISBN 13: 9783030475475
Verlag: Birkhäuser, 2020

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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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The path is the goal. The essence behind this short sentence is known to many people around the world, expressed through the interpretations of some of the greatest thinkers like Lao-Tze and Gandhi. It means that it is the journey that counts, not the destination. When speaking about such subjective and intangible things, philosophy and religion are some of the only approaches that are addressed. In this book, the authors address this conventional wisdom from the perspective of natural science. They explore a sequence of steps that leads the reader closer to the nature of paths and accompany him on the search for “the path to paths”. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

András Gulyás is Research Fellow at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. His primary research interest is in networks and paths.

 

Zalán Heszberger is Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. His expertise is in the area of emergence and evolution of technological, biological, and social networks.

 

József Biró is Full Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. His recent research interest is in geometry of networks.


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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. Italso includes 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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The path is the goal. The essence behind this short sentence is known to many people around the world, expressed through the interpretations of some of the greatest thinkers like Lao-Tze and Gandhi. It means that it is the journey that counts, not the destination. When speaking about such subjective and intangible things, philosophy and religion are some of the only approaches that areaddressed. In this book, the authors address this conventional wisdom from the perspective of natural science. They explore a sequence of steps that leads the reader closer to the nature of paths and accompany him on the search for “the path to paths”.


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Verlag
Birkhäuser
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030475476
ISBN 13 
9783030475475
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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