Networks can take many forms and functions without one really knowing how it happens. When we do our everyday things, networks are also doing their part in out lives. Anna Nagourney talks about transportation, applications, simple building evacuations being things that involve us without having our complete thought. As one lives in New York City …
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Sep 01 2020
Networks take the form of our everyday lives.
Without networks, there would be utter chaos; almost every form of technology would be as unstable, unreliable, and just about unusable to society. Our everyday interactions would be disrupted, Anna Nagurney mentions transportation as a type of network, which in itself faces many issues. As we all know, New York City subway lines are infamous …
Sep 01 2020
Network Theory
How networks can take many forms and functions? Networks can take many forms and functions because, networks are complex systems. Networks can be made into different iterations because it’s so vast and can be compared in any aspect. Networks, as a whole, is revolved around society in the sense of architecture and economics, in Networks: …
Sep 01 2020
Network Theory
Networks can take many forms and functions in many different ways. As mentioned by Anna Nagurney in “Networks: The Science-Spanning Disciplines” Nagurney mentions railroad networks, transportation networks, energy networks, water networks, and communication networks as many forms of networks that exist. Each and every type of these forms of networks work their own way, they …
Sep 01 2020
Network Theory
When networks are brought up, one might think of computer networks, like your home networks, which has multiple devices connected to the same router. But there’s obviously different forms of networks. Like Nagurney mentioned in her talk, “Networks: The Science-Spanning Disciplines” (3:25), network science is the study of complex networks, like that of telecom networks, …
Sep 01 2020
Networks
“Statistical mechanics taught us that intensive, systemsize-independent quantities offer some of the best measures of a system’s internal characteristics.” This quote from the article is interesting to pick at because it is basically saying that with the knowledge of what is already known, an independent quality of something can be used for a system’s own …
Sep 01 2020
Network Theory
According to Anna Nagurney and her speech about “Networks – the Science-Spanning Disciplines”, networks can be seen everywhere in our daily lives from economics and business to science, technology and education. A network is considered to be a measurable pattern of connections between different articles in a certain space. A network …
Aug 31 2020
First Assignment due by class time 9/2
Your first assignment – your response / analysis of the readings on Network Theory is due on the blog here by class time on September 2, 2020.
