LEADER 04362nam 22005655 450 001 9910418354503321 005 20251113203516.0 010 $a3-030-47545-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-47545-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011392549 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-47545-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6310311 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6310311 035 $a(OCoLC)1243533456 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34696 035 $a(PPN)258876638 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010187476 035 $a(oapen)doab34696 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011392549 100 $a20200818d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPaths $eWhy is life ?lled with so many detours? /$fby András Gulyás, Zalán Heszberger, József Biró 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Birkhäuser,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xxv, 86 pages) $cillustrations, charts; digital, PDF file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9783030475444 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. The Introduction: Long and Winding Roads -- 2. Everybody Loves Roundabouts -- 3. The Forest of Alternative Choices -- 4. Straight to the Point: A Short Chapter about the Shortest Paths -- 5. Finding your Way Through the Maze -- 6. On the Trail of Nature: Collecting Scientific Evidence -- 7. The Universal Nature of Paths -- 8. Amazing Scientific Discoveries: Aspirin, Cattle, Business Communication and others -- 9. Paths to the Way We Live, Teach and Learn -- 10. The Path is the Goal!. 330 $aThis open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn. Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in large networked structures. It also shows the amazing similarity in the ways humans and other ? even nonliving ? things navigate in a complex environment, to allow readers to easily grasp how paths emerge in many walks of life, and how they are navigated. Paths is based on the authors recent research in the area of paths on networks, which points to the possible birth of the new science of ?paths? as a natural consequence ?and extension) of the science of ?networks.? The approach is essentially story-based, supported by scientific findings, interdisciplinary approaches, and at times, even philosophical points of view. Italso includes short illustrative anecdotes showing the amazing similarities between real-world paths and discusses their applications in science and everyday life. Paths will appeal to network scientists and to anyone interested in popular science. By helping readers to step away from the ?networked? view of many recent popular scientific books and start to think of longer paths instead of individual links, it sheds light on these problems from a genuinely new perspective. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The path is the goal. The essence behind this short sentence is known to many people around the world, expressed through the interpretations of some of the greatest thinkers like Lao-Tze and Gandhi. It means that it is the journey that counts, not the destination. When speaking about such subjective and intangible things, philosophy and religion are some of the only approaches that areaddressed. In this book, the authors address this conventional wisdom from the perspective of natural science. They explore a sequence of steps that leads the reader closer to the nature of paths and accompany him on the search for ?the path to paths?. 606 $aMathematics 606 $aMathematics 615 0$aMathematics. 615 14$aMathematics. 676 $a510 676 $a510 686 $aMAT000000$2bisacsh 700 $aGulya?s$b Andra?s$00 702 $aHeszberger$b Zalán 702 $aBi?ro?$b Jo?zsef 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910418354503321 996 $aPaths$92028689 997 $aUNINA