PlanetMath
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | PlanetMath.org, Ltd. |
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| URL | planetmath |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | GitHub account required to edit sources via pull request |
| Current status | Inactive |
Content license | CC BY-SA |
PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, mathematics online encyclopedia. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is currently hosted by the University of Waterloo. The site is owned by a US-based nonprofit corporation, "PlanetMath.org, Ltd".
PlanetMath was started when the popular free online mathematics encyclopedia MathWorld was temporarily 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.