Remco van der Hofstad is Full Professor of Probability at Eindhoven University of Technology and Acting Scientific Director of the European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications (Eurandom). He has authored over 100 research articles and has taught courses on random graphs at over ten institutions. He received the 2003 Prix Henri Poincaré (jointly with Gordon Slade) and the 2007 Rollo Davidson Prize, and he is a laureate of the 2003 Innovative Research VIDI Scheme and the 2008 Innovative Research VICI Scheme.

• Preface; Course outline; 1. Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries: 2. Probabilistics methods; 3. Branching processes; Part II. Basic Models: 4. Phase transition for the Erdos–Renyi random graph; 5. Erdos–Renyi random graph revisited; Part III. Models for Complex Networks: 6. Generalized random graphs; 7. Configuration model; 8. Preferential attachment models; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index.

'… a modern and deep, yet accessible, introduction to the models that make up [the] basis for the theoretical study of random graphs and complex networks. The book strikes a balance between providing broad perspective and analytic rigor that is a pleasure for the reader.' Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology