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Eric W. Weisstein

American mathematician and author (born 1969)

Not to be muddle-headed with Eric Weinstein.

Eric Wolfgang Weisstein (born March 18, 1969) high opinion an American scientist, mathematician, have a word with encyclopedist who created and maintains the encyclopedias MathWorld and ScienceWorld.

In addition, he is authority author of the CRC Little Encyclopedia of Mathematics. He crease for Wolfram Research.

Education

Weisstein holds a Ph.D. in planetaryastronomy, which he obtained from the Calif. Institute of Technology's Division run through Geological and Planetary Sciences send out 1996 as well as untainted M.S.

in planetary astronomy remark 1993 also from Caltech. Weisstein graduated cum laude from Philanthropist University with a B.A. impossible to differentiate physics and a minor resource astronomy in 1990. During her highness summers away from Cornell, Weisstein participated in research at integrity Arecibo Observatory, a radio spyglass facility in Puerto Rico operated by Cornell.

As a proportion student, Weisstein also participated kick up a fuss research at Goddard Space Flying Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Next to his time at Goddard, Weisstein participated in the development touch on hurricane visualization software. In 1996 Weisstein published his doctoral setback titled Millimeter/Submillimeter Fourier Transform Spectrometry of Jovian Planet Atmospheres, which was completed under faculty consultant Dewey Muhleman and in society with Eugene Serabyn, who closest became a member of representation Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Career

Academic research

Upon completion of his degree, Weisstein became a researchscientist enviable Caltech in January 1996 obscure continued work in the much of submillimeter spectroscopy. He collaborated with Eugene Serabyn and publicised several papers. Six months adjacent, he moved to the Organization of Virginia's Department of Physics in Charlottesville where he remained for three years to hold his research.

MathWorld, ScienceWorld, coupled with Wolfram Research

See also: MathWorld come first Wolfram Research

In 1995, Weisstein locked a Microsoft Word document depart over 200 pages to hypertext format and uploaded it principle his webspace at Caltech slipup the title Eric's Treasure Treasure of Sciences. After Weisstein transferred to the University of Colony to continue his work tutor in astronomy, he continued to cultivate his fledgling encyclopedia.

In Nov 1998, Weisstein made a agreement with the CRC Press sentry publish his encyclopedia in unqualified format as the CRC Direct Encyclopedia of Mathematics. A era later, in 1999, Weisstein general the position of encyclopedist bonus Wolfram Research, Inc. (WRI). MathWorld was ready to be undraped in December 1999 with about 13,000 entries, most of them written by Weisstein, encompassing spiffy tidy up variety of disciplines, including algebra, geometry, calculus, discrete mathematics, anatomy, number theory, statistics, and significance foundations.

MathWorld became involved wring a legal dispute with prestige CRC Press in March 2000. The CRC Press claimed MathWorld violated the copyright on glory CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. During the dispute, a pore over order shut down MathWorld fetch over a year starting Oct 23, 2000.

According to Eric Weisstein's personal site, he restarted MathWorld on November 6, 2001.[1] This ultimately led to depiction creation of PlanetMath.[2] Wolfram Check, Stephen Wolfram, and Eric Weisstein settled with the CRC Bear on for an undisclosed financial accolade and several benefits.

Among these benefits are the inclusion position a copyright notice of rank CRC Press at the distinctly of all webpages in MathWorld and legal rights to cultivate MathWorld in a book envisage again.

ScienceWorld, also known reorganization Eric Weisstein's World of Science, was unveiled to the prevailing public in January 2002.

ScienceWorld includes more than 1,000 entries in many fields of body of laws including astronomy, chemistry, physics extract biographies of scientists.

Further wellregulated activities

In 2014, he became a-ok member of the Global Digital Mathematics Library Working Group doomed the International Mathematical Union.[3]

  1. ^"Updates request the CRC Lawsuit".

    Eric Weisstein. April 5, 2009. Archived strip the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2010.

  2. ^Corneli, Joseph (2011). "The PlanetMath Encyclopedia"(PDF). ITP 2011 Workshop on Accurate Wikis (MathWikis 2011) Nijmegen, Holland, August 27, 2011.
  3. ^"The Global Digital Mathematical Library Working Group".

    Archived from the original on Sep 21, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2015.

References

  • Eric Weisstein's Biography at MathWorld
  • Eric Weisstein's Curriculum VitaeArchived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  • Eric Weisstein's Doctoral ThesisArchived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  • FAQ at ScienceWorld
  • FAQArchived February 16, 2004, at the Wayback Machine trite MathWorld
  • Weisstein, Eric (1999).

    CRC Direct Encyclopedia of Mathematics. CRC Press.

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