MathWorld Headline News

Mathematica Information Center Launched

By Eric W. Weisstein

January 6, 2003--The Mathematica Information Center, a new electronic resource for students, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, educators, programmers, IT professionals, and Mathematica users, was unveiled on the internet today at library.wolfram.com.

The site builds on Wolfram Research's long-lived and popular MathSource site, which has been completely integrated into the Mathematica Information Center together with tutorials, examples, demos, and how-tos originally found in the Mathematica Resource Library. In addition, the Information Center features summaries of thousands of Mathematica-related books and articles, as well as hundreds of demos and technical notes. Hundreds of pieces of Mathematica code can be downloaded from the MathSource collection of packages and programs, and hundreds more from collections of demos and technical notes. An extensive collection of Mathematica-based courseware is also included in the Information Center, as is an archive of conference proceedings.

The Mathematica Information Center has been painstakingly compiled by research and library staff at Wolfram Research as an additional resource for Mathematica users. It complements other existing sources of reference information provided by Wolfram Research, such as the Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center, Technical Support FAQs, forums.wolfram.com, MathWorld, functions.wolfram.com, MathML Central, webMathematica Explorations, and the Mathematica Graphics Gallery.

The Mathematica Information Center provides several layers of navigation and search tools, including a custom subject-classification scheme modeled after those used on MathWorld. Full-text and advanced searching are also available, making information extremely easy to locate and retrieve.

Readers of MathWorld are encouraged to browse the new Information Center and take advantage of its rich body of knowledge and mathematical information. Suggestions for links from MathWorld to the Information Center are welcome, as are additional submissions to the Information Center itself.