Encyclopedia of Mathematics

The Encyclop ( a) edia of Mathematics is a misplaced by Springer-Verlag mathematical lexicon, was its editor from 1987 to 2002 Michiel Hazewinkel.

It includes over 8,000 articles and 50,000 words ( as of 2002) and is available in the form of a 13 - volume book edition ( including three supplementary volumes ), a CD- ROM and a freely accessible website. The Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is originally based on a translation of Ivan Matveyitch Vinogradov 1977, published in the Soviet Union Russian-speaking lexicon Matematicheskaya entsiklopediya into English, but since then has been considerably expanded and updated. The first 10 -volume print edition appeared first in 1987 to 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishing, which also published the three supplementary volumes 1997, 2000 and 2002. 2003 Kluwer Academic publishing was taken over by Springer.