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Calling Dunbar's Numbers
Pádraig MacCarron, Kimmo Kaski, Robin Dunbar
The social brain hypothesis predicts that humans have an average of about 150 relationships at any given time. Within this 150, there are layers of friends of an ego, where the num…
Temporal Network Analysis of Literary Texts
Sandra D. Prado, Silvio R. Dahmen, Ana L. C. Bazzan +2
We study temporal networks of characters in literature focusing on "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll and the anonymous "La Chanson de Roland" (around 1100)…
Maths Meets Myths: Network Investigations of Ancient Narratives
R. Kenna, P. Mac Carron
Three years ago, we initiated a programme of research in which ideas and tools from statistical physics and network theory were applied to the field of comparative mythology. The e…
Network analysis of the Íslendinga sögur - the Sagas of Icelanders
P. Mac Carron, R. Kenna
The Íslendinga sögur - or Sagas of Icelanders - constitute a collection of medieval literature set in Iceland around the late 9th to early 11th centuries, the so-called Saga Age. T…
Universal Properties of Mythological Networks
Pádraig Mac Carron, Ralph Kenna
As in statistical physics, the concept of universality plays an important, albeit qualitative, role in the field of comparative mythology. Here we apply statistical mechanical tool…