NETWORKS: AN INTRODUCTION

NETWORKS: AN INTRODUCTION by M. E. J. Newman Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 772. ISBN: 978-0-19-920665-0

I teach courses in network science, and for some time I have been looking for a mathematically based foundational network science textbook. Thus, I am pleased to have found M. E. J. Newman's Networks: An Introduction. This book covers the fundamental concepts of network science from mathematical, modeling, application, and graphical perspectives, and can be used in my network science courses from sophomore to senior level. Newman's book meets his stated goal, "to bring our knowledge of networks together and present it in consistent language and notation,...