Subject Guide: Mathematics

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Online Resources

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Electronic Journal Center you can search across all EJC journals, or browse the journals related to Mathematics
• General Science Abstracts
• MathSciNet
• Web of Knowledge

Reference Books

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Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

• CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics  QA5 .W45 1999
• CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae  QA47 .M315 2003
• Engineering Mathematics Handbook  TA332 .T85 1998 (Physics Library)
• Mathematical handbook of formulas and tables
• History of Modern Science and Mathematics  Q125 .H6298 2002
• The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics  QA5 .P4425 2003

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• Academic Info Mathematics: an Annotated Directory of Internet Resources on Math
• The Calculus Page
• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• MathWorld
• Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource Page
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
• Math Archives a large resource, particularly useful for students is the link For Undergraduates
• Mathematical Games and Recreations
• Mathematical Sciences Career Information
• Mathematics WWW Virtual Library includes a long list of electronic journals in mathematics
• The Prime Pages: prime number research, records, and resources
• SIAM: the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Online Journals

Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:

• Nature
• Science 1997-present (access through the publisher Web site)
• Science 1880-2004 (access through JSTOR)
• ACM Journals
• The Electronic Journal of Probability
• Michigan Mathematical Journal all issues freely available online via Project Euclid
• To determine whether we have a journal available online, please search the CONSORT catalog or use the Electronic Journal Finder.