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The $25 000 000 000 Eigenvector

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THE $25,000,000,000∗ EIGENVECTOR THE LINEAR ALGEBRA BEHIND GOOGLE KURT BRYAN† AND TANYA LEISE‡ Abstract. Google’s success derives in large part from its PageRank algorithm, which ranks the importance of webpages according to an eigenvector of a weighted link matrix. Analysis of the PageRank formula provides a wonderful applied topic for a linear algebra course. Instructors may assign this article as a project to more advanced students, or spend one or two lectures presenting the material with assigned homework from the…

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