Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great Potential

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rodney Van Meter <rdv () sfc wide ad jp>
Date: May 6, 2009 6:58:44 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion  
and Great Potential

Dave, for IP, if you wish.

The topology of the Internet is an important and fascinating topic,  
but studying it requires a great deal of care and attention to both  
the math and the underlying technology.  Some researchers have gotten  
things very wrong by believing that they can simply ignore the  
technology and treat it as an abstract graph theory problem.

This paper is by people I trust to get it right.  Appearing in  
_Notices of the AMS_, it probably won't get as much attention from the  
Internet community as it deserves, so I hope you'll publicize it  
here.  I also recommend the PNAS paper by some of the same folks ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/41/14497.pdf 
 ).


Just published in AMS (America Mathematical Society)
yesterday:

"Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great
Potential"
Walter Willinger, David Alderson, and John C. Doyle

http://www.ams.org/notices/200905/rtx090500586p.pdf


I'm not an expert on the Internet topology, nor on the math, but I  
have a lecture on this topic that I use in one of my classes, and have  
a list of other references and comments on them, if people are  
interested.

                --Rod





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