The field of graph theory has been around since 1736, when Leonhard Euler published an article on the subject of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg (in Prussia, today’s Kaliningrad in Russia).

Graph theory may show how individuals are connected, for example, but not capture the ways in which clusters of friends on social media influence each other’s behavior.

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