The 2002 version contains more than 8,000 entries covering most areas of mathematics at a graduate level, and the presentation is technical in nature. The encyclopedia is edited byMichiel Hazewinkel and was published byKluwer Academic Publishers until 2003, when Kluwer became part ofSpringer. The CD-ROM contains animations and three-dimensional objects.
The encyclopedia has been translated from the SovietMatematicheskaya entsiklopediya (1977) originally edited byIvan Matveevich Vinogradov and extended with comments and three supplements adding several thousand articles.
Until November 29, 2011, a static version of the encyclopedia could be browsed online free of charge. This URL now redirects to the newwiki incarnation of the EOM.
A new dynamic version of the encyclopedia is now available as a public wiki online. This new wiki is a collaboration between Springer and theEuropean Mathematical Society. This new version of the encyclopedia includes the entire contents of the previous online version, but all entries can now be publicly updated to include the newest advancements in mathematics. All entries will be monitored for content accuracy by members of an editorial board[1] selected by theEuropean Mathematical Society.