The Internet and the Information Environment: A Quantitative Approach
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Pre-requisites: 01:640:026 or 027 or appropriate performance on the placement test in mathematics. Description: This course is a quantitative and mathematically rigorous introduction to concepts that underlie the Internet and Web search engines. A challenging problem will introduce each topic, and the exposition of principles and relevant theorems will be followed by an application to the Internet, and at least one other application in the Social Sciences (e.g. social networks) or the Humanities (e.g. author identification).
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