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

[amichail]

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

[dood]

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.

[rjam]

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

[amichail → rjam]

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

[fk47 → amichail]

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

[amichail → fk47]

Actually I have.

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

[fk47 → amichail]

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.