Evolution and Structure of the Internet by Romualdo Pastor-
Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani, Cambridge University Press,
£40, ISBN 0521826985 GREATEST information resource ever? That
has to be the internet. Lacking any central management, yet
supremely efficient and dependable, this "network of networks"
is also a marvel of self-organisation. What are its fundamental
laws? In Evolution and Structure of the Internet, physicists
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani survey an
explosion of recent work by physicists who have discovered that
the internet and world wide web share deep secrets with other
complex networks ranging from food webs to social networks. This
book illustrates again how the ideas of physics seem to apply to
almost everything. To continue reading this article, subscribe
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