Algorithms For Dummies

 

   

  PART 3 

 Exploring the World of Graphs

When the time is ripe, the same idea or something similar often sprouts in differ-

ent places. Sometimes sharing of basic ideas occurs between researchers and 

 scientists; sometimes ideas are developed in a completely independent way (see 

the history of Japanese mathematician Takakazu Seki 

http://www-history.mcs.

st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Seki.html

, who independently dis-

covered many of the same things as European mathematicians such as Newton, 

Leibniz, and Bernoulli did around the same period). In 1998, only Brin and Page 

took steps to create a search engine company based on their algorithm by taking 

a leave from Stanford University and their doctoral studies to focus on making 

their algorithm work with more than a billion web pages.