ABSTRACT
Network science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies the properties of large and complex networks. Network scientists are interested in both theoretical properties of networks and data-based discoveries in real networks. The roots of network science are in the mathematical discipline of graph theory. Network science is a very active area of research, with interesting unsolved problems for mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians to investigate. The study of graph theory began in the 1700s, but the inception of the field of network science was a paper published in 1959 by the legendary Paul Erdos and Alfred Renyi. In the network, each actor or actress is a node, and two actors share an edge if they have ever appeared in a movie together.
