Here is a Numberphile video [1] that explains - at the very end - why this database was put together.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTveQ1ndH1c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTveQ1ndH1c</a>
I was wondering how it was built since equations aren't the nicest things to render with HTML. A quick 'view source' shows the site is using MathJax (not MathML) for displaying the equations.<p>I presume a lot of content is submitted or formatted using Tex/Latex. Can any HN'ers elaborate on the workflow for review/editing/publishing on the site?
<i>…in Number Theory.</i><p>Also: license is GPLv2+, so they seem to think this is software. That makes some sense.<p>(And moderators, please fix that typo; mathmatical is spelled with an 'e')
Timothy Gowers (Fields Medalist and open publishing advocate) just wrote a blog post about this: <a href="https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/the-l-functions-and-modular-forms-database/#more-6143" rel="nofollow">https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/the-l-functions-and-...</a>
Terry Tao blogged about this: <a href="https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/l-functions-and-modular-forms-database-now-out-of-beta/" rel="nofollow">https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/l-functions-and-mo...</a>
Someday we will draw the link between this area/program and AI. There's something deep here that has implications I don't think we understand.
<a href="https://github.com/chadbrewbaker/endoscope" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chadbrewbaker/endoscope</a> is more useful.