ESF: an automatically generated encyclopedia of special functions

We present our on-going work on the automatic generation of an encyclopedia of special functions on the web, called The Encyclopedia of Special Functions (ESF)footnoteurlhttp://algo.inria.fr/esf. All mathematical formulae in the ESF are computed, typeset and displayed without any human intervention. This is achieved by exploiting a collection of computer algebra algorithms in a systematic way, on top of a specially designed data structure for a class of special functions.