Mathematics for social networking growth (Facebook (Score 2, Informative)

Just yesterday I wrote a short article ( http://goo.gl/dko2 ) after reading about how Facebook are using Mathematics to help with Failure rates in their datastore clusters.

There is a 24 page presentation by Avinash Lakshman and Prashant Malik, which describes (page 17 onwards), how the company are using Probability Theory to help them detect failure in a datastore.

Probability Theory is just one area of Mathematics, and degree level Mathematics would usually include at least one or two modules in Probability.

If I were an Operations Director or Development Team Leader at a large Social Networking company, I would certainly view University Level Mathematics as +1 for anyone applying to join the team.

The short article is here and the clickable link in that article should take you directly to somewhere (slideshare, etc) where you can view the 24 page .pdf