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MAS 801 It's a Discreetly Discrete World – Mathematics in ... - Spms

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The Web Graph<br />

• Primary focus is mathematics surround<strong>in</strong>g a real-world network called<br />

the web graph - denoted W<br />

• vertices of W represent web pages<br />

• edges of W represent the l<strong>in</strong>ks between pages<br />

• The terms “Internet” and “<strong>World</strong> Wide Web” are often treated as<br />

synonymous, but they are actually different<br />

• Internet is a vast network of smaller <strong>in</strong>terconnected networks,<br />

exchang<strong>in</strong>g data by certa<strong>in</strong> protocols<br />

• The <strong>World</strong> Wide Web consists of <strong>in</strong>formation stored and available<br />

on the Internet<br />

• Most of these <strong>in</strong>formation are web pages <strong>in</strong> the form of HTML<br />

documents identified with str<strong>in</strong>gs called universal resource<br />

locators (URL)<br />

• HTML documents are jo<strong>in</strong>ed by l<strong>in</strong>ks, represented as arcs <strong>in</strong> W

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