What is The Free Encyclopedia of Mathematics?

The Free Encyclopedia of Mathematics (FEM) is the print version of the PlanetMath encyclopedia. A prerelease version has been produced; the first real version is currently in development.

Quick Links

• FEM Goals
• FEM editorial policy
• FEM Editors
• FEM Preface
• FEM Criticism

Current Objective

Main

Get a full version of the FEM out this spring that can be built anew by anyone, anywhere, using our code and LaTeX backbone.

Ancillary

• Make diffs between Ross's version and the contemporaneous "raw" version
• Figure out a system for maintaining patches (.header files? How about edits to bodies? Maybe use .body files too?)
• track progress of FEM-originating corrections & suggestions

Aesthetic

• Remove canonical names (or make this a build-time option)
• (See other items in email from Aaron)

Longer term

• Lock in shared style files for PM
• content editing
• section intros

Discussion

See General discussion of FEM

Updates

CVS access : FEM is now available through CVS, see FEM CVS for instructions. This changes the way the FEM-building code works – and seems to be making FEM development easier. Hopefully there will be a release soon… --jcorneli Sat Apr 23 00:01:48 2005 UTC

Project rolling again : I've "touched" the project (ok, I wrestled it to the ground) and things should be moving forward again after a long break. Please see the file making-of-the-fem.tex in FEM CVS for details. --jcorneli Tue Oct 25 2005

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