Resource:Planetmath
Planetmath is a free, online, open-content, collaborative mathematics resource. While primarily an encyclopedia, it also contains books, expositions, papers and forums.
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Use Planetmath
Start Planetmath
Planetmath is online, or Internet-based. It can be accessed using a Web browser and an Internet connection:
Planetmath dumps can also be downloaded at:
http://aux.planetmath.org/snapshots/
Search Planetmath
Planetmath offers a search box in the upper right corner. One can also search Planetmath by adding "site:planetmath.org" to a search query on a search engine like Google, Yahoo! or Windows Live.
Article names and reaching a given article
Articles in Planetmath are named using CamelCase conventions. However, these conventions are not rigidly followed for all article names.
In the CamelCase convention, a term consisting of multiple words is shrunk to a single word, with the first letter of each original word capitalized. Thus, "prime number" becomes "PrimeNumber", and the planetmath URL for it is: