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There’s a zillion characters in Game of Thrones, even after a bunch of them have been brutally bumped off. But among the likes of Tyrion, Bran, Dany, and pals, who’s really the main character? A team of mathematicians used a power far beyond Melisandre’s shadow magics to find out: the power of cold hard graphs. 尽管有些人已经被残忍地干掉了，《权力的游戏》里的人物还是多得难以计数。但是在提利昂、布兰、丹妮以及其他人物中，谁才是真正的主角呢？一个数学家团队施展魔力，寻找答案，这个魔力可比梅丽珊卓的阴影魔法还强大——那就是客观实在的图表。 Macalester College associate professor of mathematics Andrew J. Beveridge and undergraduate student Jie Shan approached George R. R. Martin’s book series with a set of scientific approaches dubbed “Network Science.” It uses graph theory, economics, math, sociology, and a plethora of other disciplines to map out a vast, interconnected network between the characters that spread all over Westeros and Essos. 麦卡利斯特学院数学系副教授安德鲁•J•贝弗里奇和本科生单杰用一套名为“网络科学”的方法分析了乔治•R•R•马丁的这一系列书籍。这套方法运用了图论、经济学、数学、社会学和其它许多学科的知识，描绘了一幅遍及维斯特洛和厄索斯的巨大人物关系网。 | 
