A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

Identifying bottlenecks in networks

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Richard Green
Feb 03, 2025
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A large network, such as an infrastructure network or a social network, may contain highly connected regions that are linked to each other by bottlenecks. In order to understand the structure of the network, it is helpful to be able to identify where the bottlenecks are. The points marked in red in the picture above, which shows the UK road network betw…

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