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The Return of Eric Weisstein's World Of Mathematics
Many readers (like this Anonymous Coward) have written with the good news that "Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, a free, online encyclopedia of mathematics was taken off the web thanks to a lawsuit by CRC Publishing. After much legal wrangling, it returns today stronger than ever. See it rise from the ashes at http://mathworld.wolfram.com."
I used to have a cool sig, back when I cared
And yet, it bows under the mighty weight of the Slashdot Effect. Good going guys, now it's back down again.
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the site's jammed up, and there's only 10 posts up here. Seems as though every single /.er just flew immediately to the site to see with their own eyes (ok, I admit I did.)
I hope whatever license agreement they had to work out to get the site back up isn't "per hit."
No, no, no. This is not a sig.
Great news.
/. account to add
Specifiacally for this created
my 0.02 $ on that topic (not that's a big deal
but anyway).
MathWorld is great resource, one of the most
useful and easy to understand. Really missed it
while it was closed down. At least somebody takes
time to organize the mathematical knowledge in a
down to earth way (and give it out for free).
Not quite strong enough to stand a slashdotting however.
dreaver
Maybe welcoming a site back /.'ing it isn't all roses. Welcome back to the 'net by DOS ;), anyone have mirror links yet?
For those of you that don't know how MathWorld disappeared here's the whole story: http://www.mathworld.com/erics_commentary.html
Yes, it's a heartwarming tale of a web site that was shut down by a copyright dispute, finally reopened in triumph, and was immediately slashdotted into oblivion. :-)