Disrupted Networks

The following sections are included:

• Preface

• Contents

The following sections are included:

• The science of data, information and knowledge

• The face of science
  • Qualitative and quantitative
  • What is a complex network?
  • A taxonomy of complex networks
  • The three-tiers of science

• Framing the climate change debate
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Climate topologies in comparison

The following sections are included:

• Physics as a scientific paradigm
  • Psychophysics quantifies individuals
  • Sociophysics quantifies groups
  • Econophysics quantifies exchange
  • Biophysics quantifies life

• Time series
  • Measures and data
  • Representing the data

• Fractal statistics

• Solar and climate variability
  • Solar data
  • Temperature data

The following sections are included:

• Entropy
  • Wiener-Shannon Information
  • The Physicality of Information

• Pareto's Law
  • Economic networks
  • Science networks
  • Information networks
  • Social-communication networks
  • Networks of neurons

• Entropy and data processing
  • Diffusion of Information
  • Diffusion entropy analysis

• Sun-climate complexity matching?

The following sections are included:

• Mathematics enables knowledge

• The Pareto Principle: the 80/20 rule

• What we know about complex networks
  • Random networks
  • Scale-free networks and the STDs epidemic
  • Scale-rich networks

• The Sun-climate linking: an ongoing debate
  • The Hockey Stick graph and the climate models
  • The 11-year solar cycle signature on climate: models vs. data
  • The phenomenological reconstruction of the solar signature on climate

Scientists in the eighteenth and nineteenth century recognized that the developing urban society was fundamentally different from the agrarian social order it replaced. Much of what the individual had done for himself on the farm was now done through mutual agreement in the newly interconnected social networks of the cities. The change in social order became most apparent for our purposes in the replacement of natural philosophy with quantifiable science in the nineteenth century. The origin of the word ‘scientist’ dates from 1833 and was coined by the philosopher and historian of science William Whewell. This term was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connection of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Review. Curiously, at that time the term had a partly satirical meaning…

The following sections are included:

• Glossary

• Bibliography

• Index