How to Make Billions from School MathematicsS

摘要

In the first part of the session students got to investigate themathematics behind internet search engine page rank algorithms.these are the routines that determine the order in which websitesappear to the user when they are found in a search. Google led theivay in developing the most powerful and useful algorithms forthis. The basis of the algorithms is amazingly simple and it pro-!ides great motivation for the study of simultaneous equations.:Some of the details are sketched below.