"In spite of his small size, Tyrion is mathematically the most important character in Game of Thrones."
... followed by Jon Snow.
Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
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#12Can they map postmodern literature to find the plot?
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#14I want to see this animated.
With the 3D clockwork graphics and the musical theme score!
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#15...still no cure for cancer.
Think of cancer like a Game of Thrones among individual tumors for the iron throne of the cause of death.
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#16you need a mathematician to come up with that diagram?
In this case the mathematician decided on his own to make the diagram, it isn't an answer to some external need.
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#17Or you know... you could count the number of chapters that every character has and come up with the one that has the highest number of chapters as the main character?
Which, if your RTFA, they have done and noted. They show that this is not quite as simple as it seems since, for example, Arya has more POV chapters but Sansa is more important to the story.
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#18you need a mathematician to come up with that diagram?
Graph centrality measures are a pretty interesting and ongoing topic of research in mathematics, yes. I'm familiar with methods based on eigenspectra of the matrix exponential (and some relevance to Krylov subspace methods), but that's really it.
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#19Or you know... you could count the number of chapters that every character has and come up with the one that has the highest number of chapters as the main character?
Or you could just count the number of times their names are mentioned... Except neither approach really represents character importance accurately. Why just go the naive route when you can extract more information from your data by using a more complex approach?
The article actually counters your point exactly:
"For example, Arya Stark, Sansa’s younger sister, has the third most chapters with 34, but ranks behind Sansa in terms of network importance."
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#20...still no cure for cancer.
Think of cancer like a Game of Thrones among individual tumors for the iron throne of the cause of death.
Brillant! And The Others would be the quimiotherapy? Because they kill all the cancer cells... bad joke, sorry, we will probably burn in hell together haha