>>12884981It's a 'good field' in the sense that it's quite active, and it should be easy to get funding, find an advisor, publish papers, etc. but it honestly seems like the field is very boring and homogeneous and uncreative - and I say that as someone with an interest in graph theory and applied math. I mean some parts seem really cool too, and you get to do research in all sorts of fields from economics to sociology to biology, but it seems like most of what they do is design and tweek models. These people are not real mathematics, or even real theoretical computer scientists, they are more like data scientists or people working in informatics.
>>12886292Graph theory plus statistics plus computer modeling (mostly computer modeling). My math department actually does a lot of 'network science' and I don't know why. It's basically just computer modeling, not real math.
I mean you can treat it as math, and there is interesting work being done in that area, but in that case it's literally just graph theory, so there is no sense it calling it 'network science' or 'network analysis'.
