How does Google google? The Math Behind the Internet

IAM Seminar
January 14, 2013 11:00 pm

Speaker:  Prof. Margot Gerritsen, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford

URL for Speaker:  http://margot.stanford.edu/

Location:  LSK 460

Intended Audience:  Public

We all Google. You may even have found this talk by Googling. What you may not know is that behind the Google’s and other search engines is beautiful and elegant mathematics. In this talk, I will try to explain the workings of page ranking and search engines using only rusty calculus.