Introduction to Online Complexity

Frank Huo is a PhD student at the George Washington University, having graduated with BA, MA, and Mmath degrees from Pembroke College, Cambridge University. His research interests include theoretical physics of complex systems.Professor Neil F. Johnson is Head of Dynamic Online Networks Laboratory, George Washington University. He was Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford until 2007, and has been a Professor of Physics at George Washington University since 2018.Professor Pedro D. Manrique is Assistant Professor of Physics, Florida Polytechnic University. He has had research appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Director's fellow and at George Washington University.Dr Minzhang Zheng is a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is also an adjunct Assistant Research Professor at George Washington University.

• 1: New science for a new need 2: Empirical patterns 3: Multi-body physics 1.0: Single-species fusion and fission 4: Multi-body physics 2.0: Multi-species fusion and fission 5: Multi-body physics 3.0: General fusion-fission theory for time-dependent heterogenous systems 6: Online wars: Bad-actor AI and beyond 7: Online spreading: Contagion and broadcast 8: Adding adaptation: emergence of anticrowds 9: Controlling human-technology-AI systems 10: Final thoughts References Index

A good book which works through the mathematical steps in a detailed way appropriate for graduate or advanced undergraduate students, and explains some of the trickier mathematics with generating functions.