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I noticed you included planetmath in your list of encyclopedias. They used to be an excellent source for definitions and theorems in pure math. But for the pa
by lell 16y ago
I noticed you included planetmath in your list of encyclopedias. They used to be an excellent source for definitions and theorems in pure math. But for the past 3 years, their search has been broken and their rendering has been slow (each page view lands on a yucky page of unrendered typesetting syntax, which is replaced by a blank page for more than a few seconds before some 'jsmath' plugin does something?). They hemorrhaged most of their users during that period. I found some notes from their board meetings, and they've know about these issues, they discuss them continually, but they've done nothing for 3 years. It's really sad, because it could have been an alternative to wikipedia for pure mathematicians.
Another hidden gem for academic mathematics is york university's ask a topologist: http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/bbqa http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/bbqa . Regulars on this forum routinely answer and discuss graduate and research level questions (in algebra and geometry too, not just topology).