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A F I R S T C O U R S E I N N E T WO R K T H E O RY
A First Course in Network Theory
Dr Philip A. Knight
Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, UK
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Dedication
The origins of this book can be traced to lecture notes we prepared for a class
entitled Introduction to Network Theory offered by the Department of Mathemat-
ics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde and attended by undergraduate
students in the Honour courses in the department. The course has since been
extended, based on experience gained in teaching the course to graduate students
and postdoctoral researchers from a variety of backgrounds around the world.
To mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists at Emory University in
Atlanta. To postgraduate students in biological and environmental sciences on
courses sponsored by the Natural Environmental Research Council in the UK. To
Masters students on intensive short courses at the African Institute of Mathemat-
ical Sciences in both South Africa and Ghana. And to mathematicians, computer
scientists, physicists, and more at an International Summer School on Complex
Networks in Bertinoro, Italy.
Designing courses with a common thread suitable for students with very dif-
ferent backgrounds represents a big challenge. For example, the balance between
theory and application will vary significantly between students of mathematics
and students of computer sciences. An even greater challenge is to ensure that
those students with an interest in network theory, but who lack the normal quan-
titative backgrounds expected on a mathematics course, do not become frustrated
by being overloaded by seemingly unnecessary theory. We believe in the interdis-
ciplinary nature of the study of complex networks. The aim of this book is to
approach our students in an interdisciplinary fashion and as a consequence we
try to avoid a heavy mathematical bias. We have avoided a didactic ‘Theorem–
Proof ’ approach but we do not believe we have sacrificed rigour and the book is
replete with examples and solved problems which will lead students through the
theory as constructively as possible.
This book is written with senior undergraduate students and new graduate
students in mind. The major prerequisite is elementary algebra at a level one
would expect in the first year of an undergraduate science degree. To make this
book accessible for students from non-quantitative subjects we explain most of
the basic concepts of linear algebra needed to understand the more specific topics
of network theory. This material should not be wasted on students coming from
more quantitative subjects. As well as providing a reminder of familiar concepts,
we expect they will encounter a number of simple results which are not typically
presented in undergraduate linear algebra courses. We insist on no prerequisites
in graph theory for understanding this book since we believe it contains all the
necessary basic concepts in that area to allow progress in network theory. Based
viii Preface
Finally, we would like to thank the colleagues and students who have helped
us and inspired us to write this book. In particular, we would like to thank Mary
McAuley for her patience and skill in organizing our material and Eusebio Vargas
for lending us his talents to produce the high quality illustrations of networks
which you will find in the book.
Ernesto Estrada
Philip A. Knight
Contents
3 How To Prove It 31
3.1 Motivation 31
3.2 Draw pictures 32
3.3 Use induction 34
3.4 Try to find a counterexample 35
3.5 Proof by contradiction 36
3.6 Make connections between concepts 37
3.7 Other general advice 38
Further reading 38
9 Degree Distributions 95
9.1 Motivation 95
9.2 General degree distributions 95
9.3 Scale-free networks 97
Further reading 100
Index 251
Introduction to Network
Theory 1
1.1 Overview of networks 1
In this chapter 1.2 History of graphs 5
We start with a brief introduction outlining some of the areas where we find 1.3 What you will learn from this book 9
networks in the real-world. While our list is far from exhaustive, it highlights Further reading 11
why they are such a fundamental topic in contemporary applied mathematics.
We then take a step back and give a historical perspective of the contribution
of mathematicians in graph theory, to see the origins of some of the terms
and ideas we will use. Finally, we give an example to demonstrate some of the
typical problems a network analyst can be expected to find answers to.
You may have noticed that these concepts are not completely disjoint and it is
certainly the case that we may want to interpret one network from many differ-
ent points of view. Some examples of these classes of networks are illustrated in
Figures 1.1–1.4.
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