How much do we know about Derek J. de Solla Price?I thought it interesting that his work included network theory and overlapped with the studies of Professor Ithiel De Sola Pool son of Rabbi David de Sola Pool.For those not familiar Derek Price is the father of Price's law - Price’s square root law or Price’s law pertains to the relationship between the literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors. [4] Thus, if 100 papers are written by 25 authors, five authors will have contributed 50 papers.