News
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New review article on mathematical modeling of urban sprawl published
in Spatial Economic Analysis
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New chess paper about Chess960 on the arxiv
Article in: the New Scientist, Popular Science,
Phys.org, La Nature, Physics World, LesNews.ca
the Times
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New menu in this website: Chess
Explore blogs, data, and code dedicated
to the science of chess.
Your comments and suggestions
are most welcome!
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New paper about the 15-minutes city:
"A pure 15-minute city is a dead city"
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Paper published in PRE: From lines to networks
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10/2025 - New paper published in PRL:
Roughness and dynamics of urban sprawl
Article in SIAM news: "The Physics of
Surfaces: Why City Growth is so Rough"
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10/2025 - New paper about the relation
between Heaps law and Zipf's law (arXiv)
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New review article on modeling urban sprawl (arXiv)
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Paper published in PRL: Universal Model of Urban Street Networks
(and on arXiv)
See also the interesting blog post by David O'Sullivan
Book on modelling urban population dynamics and statistics (Oxford Univ. Press)
Statistics and Dynamics of Urban Populations: Empirical Results and Theoretical Approaches
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This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth
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From measures and empirical results to the mathematical description of their evolution
Book on spatial networks
Spatial Networks
A Complete Introduction: From Graph Theory and Statistical Physics to Real-World Applications
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Updated and largely augmented version of previous works (Table of contents here)
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Provides a comprehensive review of this interdisciplinary field
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Illustrates how graph theory and statistical physics can help solving practical problems
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Contains many examples of real-world applications from transportation networks to the brain
Springer 2022
Popular science book (in French)
(Editions Odile Jacob)
In the (french) media:
- Chronique d'Etienne Klein ici
- Emission sur RTBF Tendances première
- Emission "La librairie de l'Eco" BFM Business
(1ere diffusion Samedi 11/02 16h30)
- Interview pour Le Figaro (27/02)
- Chronique dans Le Monde (28/02)
- Emission RFI "Autour de la question" (21/03 15h00)
- Sud-Radio "Le numerique pour tous" (02/04)
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