Amy N Langville

Mam 2006: Markov Anniversary Meeting Amy N Langville

Publisher Marketing: This book offers a fresh context for the ground-breaking work of the great mathematician Andrei Markov. A distinguished collection of scholars and scientists provide exciting new insights into the signifiance and contemporary applicability of Markov's work. Contributor Bio:  Langville, Amy N Amy N. Langville is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She studies mathematical algorithms for information retrieval and text and data mining applications. Carl D. Meyer is Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. In addition to information retrieval, his research areas include numerical analysis, linear algebra, and Markov chains. He is the author of "Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra."Contributor Bio:  Stewart, William J William J. Stewart is professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, a position he has occupied since 1978. He obtained his doctorate at the Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland after which he moved to France to spend almost five years at the University of Rennes. He has published extensively in the areas of applied probability, Markov chains and numerical linear algebra. His homepage may be viewed at the URL: http: //www4.ncsu.edu/ billy/