April 21, 1998
						Contact: Eric Weisstein 
							  (804) 924-4899
					     		   eww6n@virginia.edu

POPULAR WEB SITE INFORMATION TO BECOME 
AVAILABLE IN BOOK, CD SOON

	"Eric's Treasure Troves of Science," the Yahoo Internet
directory's long-running number one "cool site" for science and math,
has become too hot just for the Internet.
	A portion of information compiled by Eric W. Weisstein, a
researcher in the University of Virginia's astronomy department, will
soon be published as an encyclopedia.  Expected in book stores by late
summer, the CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics will contain the mathematics
portion of "Eric's Treasure Troves" site.
	Accessed approximately 58,000 times a day, the Web site supplies
science information to countries all over the world.  Most of the
comments that Weisstein receives on the site come from teachers and high
school and college students who use it as a resource.
	"Eric's Treasure Troves" has been one of Weisstein's ongoing
projects since he was a graduate student at the California Institute of
Technology.  He updates the site weekly, using data that he has compiled
on topics ranging from chemistry to scientific biographies to music.  
     	When the information is published in the encyclopedia, portions
of the "Treasure Troves" will no longer be available on the Internet.
However, the publisher also expects to release the information on
CD-ROM, a format that can be easily updated.
	Weisstein is enthusiastic about the new uses for the information
he has collected.  "I'm looking forward to sharing some of the
interesting, useful and fun aspects of mathematics with a larger
audience. I hope this work is able to make mathematics a bit more
accessible to people from all walks of life."
	Weisstein's site can be accessed at
www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/TreasureTroves.html
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