{"id":2777,"date":"2009-07-08T08:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2009-07-05T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T08:08:48","slug":"eigenvalues-produce-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/eigenvalues-produce-billionaires-2777","title":{"rendered":"Eigenvalues produce billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Google's excellent search ability is based on eigenvectors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/matrices-determinants\/matrix-determinant-intro.php\">matrix<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some interesting articles on how Google works and how it all depends on matrices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/feature-column\/fcarc-pagerank\">How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack<\/a> (for background)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infolab.stanford.edu\/~backrub\/google.html\">The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine<\/a> (the original article by Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were students at Stanford, before becoming multi-billionaires.) <\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/eigenvalues-produce-billionaires-2777#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google's PageRank algorithm is based on matrices - and has made its inventors into multi-billionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}