Suggested Reading: Zen Cat

Judith Adler, Paul Coughlin —Zen Cat— Rodale, 2003, 112 pp. ISBN 0-8759-6923-2

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I love all solitary places, where we taste the pleasure of believing what we see is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

— Percy Bysshe Shelly

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes

— Frank Lloyd Wright

This short book cointains about sixty short proverbs, quotations, sayings and poems, each accompagnied by an à propos picture of a cat. As many poetry books, to be read in a meditative mood.

Suggested Reading: Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings

Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer —Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings— Princeton University Press, 2006, 224 pp. ISBN 0-691-12202-4.

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Langville and Meyer presents us the mathematics behind Page Rank, Google’s method of rank prioritization as well as other similar methods. If the first few chapters are concerned with the history of search engines and search methods, the remainder of the text is clearly mathematical in nature.