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Mathematical physics

Mathematical physics

Maths meets myths

02 Jun 2016
Taken from the June 2016 issue of Physics World

Scholars have long debated whether the Sagas of Icelanders – ancient narratives set in the Viking Age – are fact or fiction. Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron analysed the structures of the saga societies to shed light on this question

Views on the Viking Age. (Courtesy: Stefan Auth/imageBROKER/SuperStock) The Sagas of Icelanders are

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Ralph Kenna founded the statistical physics research group at Coventry University, UK, and his former student, Pádraig Mac Carron, is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK
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