I would try to grasp the 'random surfer' idea, that is modeled by a Markov Chain. A nice free book is Markov Chain for Programmers [1]. A discrete time Markov C

I would try to grasp the 'random surfer' idea, that is modeled by a Markov Chain. A nice free book is Markov Chain for Programmers [1]. A discrete time Markov Chain boils down to a conditional probability that boils down to a matrix, and a steady distribution boils down to an eigenvalue 1 eigenvector of it, which determines PageRank. Then one can jump to 'The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google'. [1] https://github.com/czekster/markov https://github.com/czekster/markov [2] https://doi.org/10.1137/050623280 https://doi.org/10.1137/050623280 EDIT: admitedly there's much more to it