Eric W. Weisstein

Eric Wolfgang Weisstein ( born March 18, 1969 in Bloomington ( Indiana)) is an American encyclopedist of mathematics and astronomer. He is the author of the Internet encyclopedia MathWorld.

Weisstein studied physics and astronomy at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1990 and in 1996 received his doctorate in planetary science at Caltech ( millimeter / submillimeter Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Jovian Planet Atmospheres ). As a student, he worked at the Arecibo Observatory and at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where he was involved with visualization software for hurricanes. In 1996 he went to the University of Virginia. As early as 1995 he had begun to work on an online encyclopedia of mathematics from a book project with the CRC Press was (CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, 1st Edition published in 1999). In 1999 he went as encyclopedist to Wolfram Research, to work on the further expansion of MathWorld. Due to a copyright dispute with CRC Press MathWorld was from October 2000, about a year offline, before Wolfram Research agreed with the publisher. This provided the impetus for a more Internet Encyclopedia of Mathematics, PlanetMath, which is but collaboratively. 2002 Weisstein began on a new Web Encyclopedia Science World with emphasis in science and he plans more encyclopedias. In Wolfram Research, he is also working on the development of their flagship product Mathematica - he is an expert in Mathematica since the 1990s, built in MathWorld Mathematica Mathematica notebooks by many post to the article content and advises developers.

Of the approximately 13,000 entries in MathWorld most of Weisstein come.

He was an advisor of the CBS television series Numbers.