Network theory has a host of applications. One fun application is to find the central character in a novel. Such an analysis was recently performed on the hugely popular book
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Network theory has a host of applications. One fun application is to find the central character in a novel. Such an analysis was recently performed on the hugely popular book “The Songs of Fire and Ice” by George R.R. Martin which has been made into the the television show “Game of Thrones.. 1” The central character is defined by the one with the most connections to other characters. The authors of the paper considered two characters to be connected if their names appeared within 17 words of each other. This produced the graph below
