| COMMENTARY Taming complexity (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| The science of networks is experiencing a boom. But despite the necessary multidisciplinary approach to tackle the theory of complexity, scientists remain largely compartmentalized in their separate disciplines. Can they fi nd a common voice? The traditional physics curriculum has little room for networks. Most students are exposed to the impressive variety of crystal lattices and their impact on a solid’s electronic properties. Graduate students may encounter some simple networks in the context of percolation, neural networks or string theory. But most networks emerging in physical systems off er few mysteries or scientifi c challenges. Th erefore, the recent fever developing within the physics community for | |||||||||||||
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