Maths meets myths : quantitative approaches to ancient narratives / Ralph Kenna, M©Łir©Ưn MacCarron, P©Łdraig MacCarron, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenna, Ralph, editor.

MacCarron, M©Łir©Ưn, editor.

MacCarron, P©Łdraig, editor.

Series:

Understanding complex systems

Springer complexity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Quantitative research.

Mythology--Mathematical models.

Mythology.

Mathematical models.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and humanities scholars in investigations aimed at achieving greater understanding of our cultural inheritance. Accordingly, each contribution reports on a modern quantitative approach applicable to narrative sources from the past, or describes those which would be amenable to such treatment and why they are important. This volume is a unique state-of-the-art compendium on an emerging research field which also addresses anyone with interests in quantitative approaches to humanities.

Contents:

Introduction / Ralph Kenna, Máirín MacCarron, and Pádraig MacCarron

Cognitive and network constraints in real life and literature / Robin Dunbar

A networks approach to mythological epics / Ralph Kenna and Pádraign MacCarron

Medieval historical, hagiographical and biographical networks / Robert Gramsch, Máirín MacCarron, Pádraign MacCarron, and Joseph Yose

Peopling of the New World from data on distributions of folklore motifs / Yuri E. Berezkin

Phylogenetics meets folklore: bioinformatics approaches to the study of international folktales / Jamshid J. Tehrani and Julien d'Huy

Analyses of a virtual world / Yurij Holovatch, Olesya Mryglod, Michael Szell, and Stefan Thurner

GhostScope: conceptual mapping of supernatural phenomena in a large folklore corpus / peter M. Broadwell and Timothy R. Tangherlini

Complex networks of words in fables / Yurij Holovatch and Vasyl Palchykov

Analysing and restoring the chronology of the Irish Annals / Daniel McCarthy

Mapping literate networks in early Medieval Ireland / Elva Johnston

How quantitative methods can shed light on a problem of comparative mythology: the myth of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of deities reconsidered / David Weiß.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783319394435

3319394436

OCLC:

963658278

Publisher Number:

99969074883