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I just learned from Willie Wong on Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103404025783539237119/posts/ghjvx3Q3NrJ
that Springer have moved the EOM to http://encyclopediaofmath.org/, and all the old links to eom.springer.com are simply redirected to the home page of the new site.
Sorry, Zoran. All your links to EOM are now broken. There’s a bunch of other stuff, but click on the Google+ link to read Willie’s post.
Worse: the new direct URL-s to pages are more than double size than before. The move has also good sides, like provided source code etc. On the other hand, I do not know how to correct all those links.
There is some discussion on meta.MO
http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1229/link-rot-springer-eom/#Item_0
Somebody should contact the Springer to add the redirects. I contributed with thousands of nLab links to their commercial articles in Springerlink and they should be thankful for the functional advertising. On the other hand, the mathematical society subscribes into the new page founders so the members should protest for lack of respect towards MO, nLab, various personal blogs etc. and should repair the damage done. If the mathematical societies think corporatively with lack of respect for the base we should disobey. For example by making campaign against attending their meetings, buying their books and continuing the membership.
As far as the copyright issues mentioned at Wong’s blog, one should add that the core of the encyclopaedia has been created by the voluntary and paid work of Soviet mathematicians in the original, Soviet math encyclopaedia in 5 volumes. Many of the authors are alive. Springer got many cheap deals to revamp the works of publicly funded Soviet publishing in late 1980s and 1990s. Nobody asked the public which has been paying big money for science and education there (which has been dwarfed in drunker Yelcin’s times by factor of ten in percentage of GPA, which itself went down). Thanks to the mathematicial societies in the west the western reedition of encyclopaedia has been improved, while some other books got lower (for example the English edition of Gel’fand-Manin Methods of homological algebra introduced lots of small errors in the formulas, which are correct, as a rule in the Russian original. Some of the novelties in the western encyclopaedia are also misfortunate, for example I have seen the pointers to spectrum of a ring (algebraic geometry) at the place where the ring spectrum had to be cited. Also Hazewinkel’s automatic method to determine which new items have to be added is fundamentally flawed. He runs statistics how many times some word appears in some corpus of math and goes on to assign a next item. The synonymy and similar phenomena are not accounted for properly. For example, the printed edition has no item for such a basic notion as a stack (in the senses of Grrthendieck, Artin, Mumford and others). Namely, the computer science notion of stack is covered so the machine does not see that the stack in other major sense s not.
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