Works
- Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law, Contemporary Physics 46(5), 2005
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A physicist at the University of Michigan known for work on complex networks. His review sets out the evidence for power-law distributions, from city sizes to wars and personal fortunes, the mechanisms proposed to explain them, and how to measure them, noting that such laws usually describe only the upper tail of a distribution.