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	PlanetMath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PlanetMath was started when the popular free online math encyclopedia MathWorld was taken offline by a court injunction as a result of the CRC Press lawsuit against the company Wolfram Research and its author and employee Eric Weisstein.
		An author who starts a new article becomes the owner of that article; he or she may then choose to grant editing rights to other individuals or groups.
		The software running PlanetMath is written in perl and runs on Linux and the web server Apache.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PlanetMath (290 words)

	Building a Digital Library the Commons-based Peer Production Way
		My own project, PlanetMath [Krowne et al., 2001], is another example, and I will use it (and the Noosphere system that it runs) as a case study here.
		PlanetMath's inclusion in the National Science Digital Library [NSDL], a federation of over one hundred digital libraries, illustrates an openness to including CBPP-type projects into digital library federation efforts, and is an acknowledgement of the worth and quality possible in CBPP digital libraries.
		Their enthusiasm for the efforts discussed here and desire to see their wider recognition and employment is the reason you are reading this.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/october03/krowne/10krowne.html (5612 words)

	Aaron Krowne's Digital Library Research Page
		PlanetMath - My own project (and thesis topic), a mathematics site with an encyclopedic focus and pedagogical slant.
		Created for both the CITIDEL and PlanetMath projects, it is potentially useful to very many people in the Digital Libraries field, due to its ability to extract and distinguish true "plain text" portions of LaTeX documents.
		PlanetMath Automatic Reference Linking - Nearly all of the interlinking of PlanetMath entries is done automatically, and this document discusses how it works.
	br.endernet.org /~akrowne/elaine (1124 words)

	PlanetMath
		PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia with entries written and reviewed by members.
		PlanetMath entries are written in LaTeX, the lingua franca of the worldwide mathematics community.
		All of the entries are automatically cross-referenced with each other, and the entire corpus is kept updated in real-time.
	planetmath.org (283 words)

	CITIDEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Primarily designed for applications in theoretical physics or mathematics, these systems, which are usually interactive, can be used in any area where straightforward but tedious or lengthy calculatio...
		Amdahl's Law reveals the maximum speedup that can be expected from parallel algorithms given the proportion of parts that must be computed sequentially.
		The first level consists of formulas with only bounded quantifiers, the corresponding relations are also called the Primitive Recursive relations (this definition is equivalent to the definition from computer scie...
	www.citidel.org /?op=listcollectioncontents&collection=PlanetMath (762 words)

	Science -- Science Collections: Computers/Mathematics
		Five years later their handiwork, PlanetMath, holds nearly 4400 entries on topics from the ABC conjecture to Zsigmondy's theorem.
		Krowne, now a computer scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, estimates that math grad students contribute the largest share of the articles, with college professors, undergrads, and other visitors supplying the rest.
		PlanetMath also links to 70 free math texts, more than 30 tutorials and lectures, and a collection of published and unpublished papers.
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/collection/nw_comp_math?display=summary (1408 words)

	Helping PlanetMath
		Note: PlanetMath is a US-based nonprofit corporation, "PlanetMath.org, Ltd.", incorporated in Alexandria, Virginia.
		We are open to large-scale grants from nonprofit and government organizations or private corporations, private and public sponsorship arrangements, and private donations from individuals.
		We are also interested in ideas for improving PlanetMath's architecture to make it more elegant, efficient, maintainable, extensible, and scalable.
	aux.planetmath.org /doc/donate.html (592 words)

	Free Software Magazine - Motivation and value of free resources
		As the MathWorld lawsuit dragged on, several students at Virginia Tech and others from IRC math channels launched PlanetMath, a web site to replace the type of resource Weisstein had created.
		The GFDL allowed them to do that and guaranteed to contributors that the PlanetMath staff would not unfairly profit from their work.
		Interestingly, there are plans to create a print version of PlanetMath as well.
	www.freesoftwaremagazine.com /free_issues/issue_01/wiki_value (541 words)

	Daniel Lemire’s blog » PlanetMath a free/better alternative to Mathworld?
		I was a bit annoyed at having to use Mathworld because it is owned by the Mathematica people and so, you never know when they won’t pull a Microsoft on you.
		Didier (who I wrongly assumed to be from France initially) pointed out PlanetMath.
		The cool thing about PlanetMath is that the content is great and released under GPL.
	www.daniel-lemire.com /blog/archives/2004/08/30/planetmath-a-freebetter-alternative-to-mathworld (966 words)

	eprintblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lessig and like-minded law and technology experts have now decided to go beyond making academic arguments to counter the perceived danger." The rest of the article by Gary Stix from Scientific American explains the genesis of the Creative Commons licenses.
		"PlanetMath was conceived by Nathan Egge ("unlord" on PlanetMath) and Aaron Krowne ("akrowne" on PlanetMath-- yours truly) as a project to fill the void for a central repository for mathematical knowledge on the web, with a pedagogical slant.
		We think that the end result will be very useful to many people who are interested in learning math, who are already students studying math, or who make their living in mathematical professions." Cited in FOS News.
	eprintblog.crimsonblog.com /archives20030501.html (2726 words)

	Converting Planet Math articles to Wikicode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This webform allows one to convert a given PlanetMath article to wiki markup.
		The PlanetMath website might be slow, so please be patient.
		This tool is not a substitute for a competent editor.
	www.math.ucla.edu /~aoleg/pm/pm.html (33 words)

	Abstract and Linear Algebra :: View topic - The Dec 20, 02 version is online. Getting bound copies.
		Anyway I am trying to get bound copies available, and I am open to suggestions and comments.
		Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:23 pm Post subject: Copyright License and Planetmath
		That would also make it easier to dissect the book into encyclopedia-items that can be included into the Free Mathematics Encyclopedia of Planetmath.org
	www.math.miami.edu /forum/algebra/viewtopic.php?p=131&sid=c30d889c248ee7b58421595e07e3a920 (688 words)

	Index of /snapshots
		Herein lie daily (if all is working well) "snapshots" of the PlanetMath "encyclopedia" content.
		They are in HTML format and accompanied by an index and appropriate "meta" pages.
		Thus, you can burn a snapshot to a CD and take PlanetMath with you wherever you go!
	aux.planetmath.org /snapshots (66 words)

	math resources \| MetaFilter
		Somehow, though, MathWorld hasn't been quite the same since the shutdown, and since the PlanetMath site is still young (compared to MathWorld, which has been around since '95) they're bound to close the completeness gap sooner or later.
		This was a copyright infringement of massive proportions, of course, and within a couple months, there was an order to shut it down.
		About this time, I wandered off to Budapest to study hardcore, and missed out on a lot of the fun.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25515 (1066 words)

	Personal info for vicious
		Otherwise I've also been contributing to planetmath.org quite a bit over the past year and it's turning out to be quite a good competitor to mathworld.
		Tough mathworld is still bigger, planetmath now has some stuff mathworld doesn't and further planetmath is a lot more rigorous (as long as you stay away from the papers section and only look in the encyclopedia).
		Well didn't write anything for a long time.
	www.advogato.org /person/vicious (793 words)

	Baoping Zhang's Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Will different user types help with the generalbility of the conclusion?
		PlanetMath is a good example of collaborative central repository for mathematical knowledge on the web.
		Users can look for and at the same time contribute for definitions and terminologies related to mathematics.
	diglib.portspaces.com /bzhang6604/blog2 (1288 words)

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