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| URL | http://planetmath.org/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Available |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Virginia Tech |
| Created by | Nathan Egge, Aaron Krowne |
| Current status | active |
PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it An internet encyclopedia project is a large database of useful information accessible via World Wide Web In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic University in _____ __ / ___/ / /_ ____ ____ \__ \ / __/ / __ \ / __ \ ___/ / / /_ Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and An encyclopedia (or '''encyclopædia''') is a comprehensive written Compendium that contains Information on either all branches of Knowledge The emphasis is on peer review, rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community. Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work research or Ideas to the scrutiny of others who are Pedagogy (ˈpɛdəgɒdʒi or paedagogy is the Art or Science of being a Teacher. In biological terms a community is a group of interacting Organisms sharing an environment. [1] Intended to be comprehensive, the project is located at the Digital Library Research Lab at Virginia Tech. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic University in [2]
PlanetMath was started when the popular free online mathematics encyclopedia MathWorld was taken offline for 12 months by a court injunction as a result of the CRC Press lawsuit against the Wolfram Research company and its employee (and MathWorld's author) Eric Weisstein. MathWorld is an online Mathematics reference work created and largely written by Eric W The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books in a wide range of subjects Eric W Weisstein (born March 18, 1969, in Bloomington Indiana) is an Encyclopedist who created and maintains MathWorld [3]
PlanetMath content is licensed under the ‘copyleft’ GNU Free Documentation License. Copyleft is a play on the word Copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions The GNU Free Documentation License ( GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a Copyleft License for free documentation designed by the Free Software [4] An author who starts a new article becomes the copyright holder of that article; he or she may then choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups. All content is written in LaTeX, a typesetting system popular among mathematicians because of its support of the technical needs of mathematical typesetting and its high-quality output. LaTeX (ˈleɪtɛ A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. The user can explicitly create links to other articles, and the system also automatically turns certain words into links to the defining articles. The topic area of every article is classified by the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC is an alphanumerical Classification scheme formulated by the American Mathematical Society based on the coverage of two The American Mathematical Society (AMS is an association of professional Mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship which
Users may attach addenda, errata and discussions to articles. A system for private messaging among users is also in place.
The software running PlanetMath is written in Perl and runs on Linux and the web server Apache. NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks It is known as Noösphere and has been released under the free BSD License. Noösphere is a free open-source wiki server. It is best known for being the engine which powers PlanetMath, a large Mathematics wiki BSD licenses represent a family of Permissive free software licences. [5]
References
External links
- PlanetMath
- Article on PlanetMath in the American Scientist
- Article on PlanetMath in the science magazine of the AAAS
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