The five-volume Encyclopedia of Mathematics provides a comprehensive overview of modern mathematics, its terminology, and its applications through approximately 17,000 entries. The topics covered range from classical areas such as geometry, number theory, and the history of mathematics to numerical mathematics, graph theory, actuarial mathematics, and optimization, as well as modern application fields like wavelets, coding theory, and neural networks. Special attention is given to the biographies of significant scientists from antiquity to the present. This acknowledges the fact that in mathematics, there is a wealth of techniques, methods, or theorems named after famous personalities, such as Abelian groups, the Pythagorean theorem, and the Euclidean algorithm.