The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google [pdf](rose-hulman.edu)

12 pointsby amichailvor 19 Jahren6 comments

The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google [pdf]

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pdf

6 comments

doodvor 19 Jahren

I may be incorrect, but I've been lead to believe pagerank is of minor importance (relative to it's supposed importance) in google's search algorithm.

rjamvor 19 Jahren

Pretty mathematical paper but very interesting. You can follow it with elementary linear algebra notions (if you learned them of course ;))

amichailvor 19 Jahren

It's hard to believe that two PhD students came up with all of this. I think they got some help from their professors :)

fk47vor 19 Jahren

I don't think you've been in academia much. Professors just put their names on things :)

amichailvor 19 Jahren

Actually I have.

And top notch professors -- such as those at Stanford -- will generally not do that.

fk47vor 19 Jahren

And top notch students -- such as those at Stanford -- don't necessarily need professors to come up with things like this.

It was a joke, by the way.