Manifold Atlas: About
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The mission of the Manifold Atlas is to empower and engage topologists, geometers, historians and philosphers to organize and create knowledge about manifolds and the study of manifolds: in particular constructions and invariants and problems but also general and historical information.
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1 “What is a manifold"
We use the term manifold broadly to mean any second countable Hausdorff space which is locally Euclidean of a fixed dimension and which may, or may not, be equipped with extra structures: for a precise definition see the definition of “manifold".
2 Scientific goals and structure
- The Manifold Atlas has two main aims:
- to catalyse the organisation and creation of knowledge about manifolds via the world wide web,
- to serve as a journal standard, citable reference for the study of manifolds.
- Thus there are two sorts of pages in the Atlas: evolving pages and static articles.
- Evolving pages are continually open to improvement and expansion but are not strongly scientifically citable.
- Static articles will have been approved by the editorial board after a rigorous editorial process.
- Static articles will be instantly recognisable via the blue approval message and the suffix /nth Edition:
- Static articles will be edit-protected and their hard copies serve as scientifically citable documents: they will be the published articles of the Atlas.
3 Writing in the Manifold Atlas
- The Manifold Atlas supports two types of pages: open-editing pages and author-based pages.
- Open-editing pages can be edited openly by any registered user.
- Author-based pages are written by a single author or team of authors.
- All content in the Manifold Atlas is freely available on the world wide web as described on the user rights page.
4 Staff
- Matthias Kreck : managing editor.
- Diarmuid Crowley : scientific administraitor.
- Philipp Kühl : developer and programmer.
- Martin Steitz : system administraitor.
5 Affiliation
- The Manifold Atlas is financed by the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics and hosted by the Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics.
6 Platform
The platform for the Manifold Atlas is MediaWiki: special local features were developed by Daniel Müllner.