Scale-free networks, a controversial topic properly solved by extreme mathematics
In 2016 a company calculated that the average number of followers in Twitter was about 707. Although this might already…
Category Archives: Social Networks
Google PageRank: how search engines `bring order to the Web'
A crucial innovation of Google was a mathematically quite simple but powerful algorithm called PageRank.
Mathematical rulers in Game of Thrones
The moment millions of fans have waited for is there: the finale of Game of Thrones. 75 characters in different…
Financial Economics: Informal Collaboration, Networks, and Gender
How is scientific knowledge created? Are there patterns and special characteristics behind the flow of scientific knowledge? In this article…
What does your Facebook network look like?
Have you ever wondered if you can visualise your Facebook network? And what do these networks have to do with…
KNAW Symposium on Networks!
In the evening of 16 October a wonderful symposium on Networks took place in the public library of Amsterdam.
How does a video go viral on Twitter?
There are various parameters that determine whether a video will go viral or not. The content plays a role of…
Vaccination and the friendship paradox!
On social media it seems like everyone around me is more popular than what I am. Thankfully, as a mathematician,…
Networks in breakfast
My favorite muesli contains cranberries, raisins and oats. But what do other people like to eat in their muesli? A…
Vaccinations and networks
In 2014 UNICEF announced that polio had been eradicated in India, one of the last strongholds of the disease. The…