Amy Langville
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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Amy Nicole Langville (born 1975){{r|born}} is an American mathematician and operations researcher, and is also a former star basketball player at the high school and college levels. One of the main topics in her research is ranking systems{{r|w1}} such as the PageRank system used by Google for ranking web pages.{{r|prb}} She has also applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology.{{r|bracket}} She is a professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston.
Education and career
Langville grew up in Arnold, Maryland,{{r|cv}} and was a star basketball player for Archbishop Spalding High School,{{r|sun}} becoming the top player on the Academic All-Maryland women's basketball team.{{r|sun2}} She also played on the school's volleyball team, was president of the school branch of the National Honor Society, graduated at the top of her class, and was listed by the Maryland Higher Education Commission as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar.{{r|sun2}}
After being "recruited by more than 50 colleges",{{r|sun2}} she became an undergraduate at Mount St. Mary's College and a player for the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers women's basketball team, on a full basketball scholarship;{{r|mount}} she was Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year for 1995–1996.{{r|nec}} She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Mount St. Mary's in 1997, as the school valedictorian,{{r|cv}} and was named to the 1997 GTE academic all-American women's basketball first team.{{r|wapo}} She earned a Ph.D. in operations research at North Carolina State University in 2002.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, Preconditioning techniques, was supervised by William J. Stewart.{{r|mg}}
She remained at North Carolina State University for postdoctoral research, following which she joined the College of Charleston faculty in 2005. She was promoted to full professor in 2015.{{r|cv}}
Books
Langville is the co-author with Carl D. Meyer of two books on ranking, both published by the Princeton University Press. The first, Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings, concerns search engines and the PageRank method used by Google's search engine for ranking web pages in search results; it was published in 2006.{{r|prb}} The second, Who's #1? — The Science of Rating and Ranking (published in 2012) extends her study to ranking systems more generally.{{r|w1}} The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has suggested that it be included in undergraduate mathematics libraries.{{sfnp|Wilders|2012}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1997/03/21/for-the-record/29bf1e57-7fa5-4972-af3b-ba9269396065/|title=For the record|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 21, 1997}}
- {{citation|last=Dagienė|first=Valentina|journal=zbMATH|title=none|zbl=1285.00005}}
- {{citation|last=Wilders|first=Richard J.|date=March 2012|journal=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/whos-1-the-science-of-rating-and-ranking}}
- {{citation|last=Hand|first=David J.|date=October 2012|doi=10.1080/02664763.2012.701375|issue=10|journal=Journal of Applied Statistics|pages=2309–2310|title=none|volume=39|doi-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Keener|first=James|date=December 2012|issue=4|journal=SIAM Review|jstor=24248363|pages=827–831|title=none|volume=54}}
- {{citation|last=Dale|first=Andrew I.|date=January 2013|issue=1|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|pages=81–83|title=Review|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201301/rnoti-p81.pdf|volume=60}}
- {{citation|last=Stickles|first=Paula R.|date=Spring 2013|issue=2|journal=Mathematics and Computer Education|pages=146–147|title=Review|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/3b7bd2d545fd823e93c2acf6bf0cd053/1|volume=47}}
- {{citation|last1=Heavlin|first1=William D.|last2=Pregibon|first2=Daryl|date=May 2013|issue=2|journal=The American Statistician|jstor=24591447|pages=111–113|title=none|volume=67}}
- {{citation|last=Grimaldo Moreno|first=Francisco|date=October 2013|issue=4|journal=Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation|title=Review|url=https://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/4/reviews/5.html|volume=16}}
- {{citation|last=Mattei|first=Nicholas|date=March 2014|doi=10.1145/2596583.2596594|issue=1|journal=ACM SIGACT News|pages=38–40|title=none|volume=45|s2cid=23586037}}
- {{citation|last=Schubert|first=András|date=August 2015|doi=10.1556/650.2015.30216|issue=32|journal=Orvosi Hetilap|language=Hungarian|pages=1298–1300|pmid=26234311|title=Hogyan rangsoroljunk, ha muszáj? Gondolatok Amy N. Langville és Carl D. Meyer könyve nyomán|volume=156|url=http://real.mtak.hu/38396/1/650.2015.30216.pdf}}
Reviews of Google's PageRank and Beyond:
- {{citation|last=Popa|first=Constantin|journal=zbMATH|title=none|zbl=1104.68042}}
- {{citation|last1=Vakali|first1=Athena|author1-link=Athena Vakali|last2=Kellerman|first2=Anne|journal=ACM Computing Surveys|title=Reviews|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/1146372}}
- {{citation|last=Satzer|first=William J.|date=May 2006|journal=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/googles-pagerank-and-beyond-the-science-of-search-engine-rankings}}
- {{citation|last=Berry|first=Michael W.|date=December 2006|issue=4|journal=SIAM Review|jstor=20453882|page=793|title=none|volume=48}}
- {{citation|last=Ding|first=Jiu|journal=Mathematical Reviews|mr=2262054|title=none|year=2007}}
- {{citation|last=Hendler|first=James|date=February 2007|doi=10.1063/1.2711640|issue=2|journal=Physics Today|pages=64|title=none|volume=60|doi-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Kaplan|first=Daniel T.|date=October 2008|issue=8|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|jstor=27642602|pages=765–768|title=none|volume=115}}
- {{citation|last=Fernández|first=Pablo|date=March 2008|doi=10.1007/bf02985759|issue=1|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|pages=68–69|title=none|volume=30|s2cid=189886421}}
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