Effort to model Facebook yields key to famous math problem (and a prize)

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 07:00 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org) —Dan Spielman, a Yale computer scientist, wasn't looking for a new problem. He was already deeply immersed in a tricky effort to model complex online communities like Facebook, hoping to gain insight into how they form and interact.

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