Mathematics Resources


This guide is divided into the following sections:

Students in mathematics may consult this guide for links to major websites in mathematics, and for information about other NMSU library resources (reference books, journals, CD-ROMS, indexes, etc.). It is not intended as a comprehensive list, but as a guide to the best starting points for research.

Direct links are provided for resources that are available on the WWW. Subscription databases are available to NMSU students, faculty and staff and generally require that you go through a gateway.

Library Research Tools with Broad Subject Coverage

Library Catalog via WWW, http://libcat.nmsu.edu
Web search interface to the NMSU Library Catalog

Expanded Academic ASAP, http://lib.nmsu.edu/resources/dbexpacd.html
Proquest Direct includes citations and summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications with full text and/or page images from over 800 magazines and journals. A few titles of interest for Mathematics students include:
  • American Journal of Mathematics
  • The College Mathematics Journal
  • Mathematics Magazine
  • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
When the full text of articles are not included in the Proquest database, students may use Interlibrary Loan, http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/illdds/index.html to request copies of articles.

JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org
Full text backfile volumes of scholarly journals in Mathematics and other disciplines.

FirstSearch, http://lib.nmsu.edu/resources/dbfs.html
The FirstSearch system provides access to over 60 databases through a menu and a common search interface. Examples:
  • WORLDCAT: 37 million bibliographic records to books, journals, dissertations, videos, etc. owned by libraries all over the US and in other countries
  • ARTICLES FIRST: access to contents of over 12,500 academic journals
  • APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDEX: access to contents of 350 academic journals covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology
  • INSPEC: scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings
  • BOOKS IN PRINT: publishers, reviews and ordering information for books currently available from hundreds of publishers worldwide
  • DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS: search for dissertations from hundreds of US and some foreign universities
  • ERIC: journal articles and reports in education, including education in mathematics
  • PAPERS FIRST: papers included on conferences, expositions, workshops, and symposiums
  • WILSON SELECT: full-text information from selected scholarly publications

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Electronic Research Tools with Mathematics Coverage

MathSciNet, http://www.ams.org/msnprhtml/review_search.html
A searchable Web database providing access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present. Produced by the American Mathematical Society.

SciSearch - Science Citation Index,http://lib.nmsu.edu/resources/dbsci.html
SciSearch is an electronic database based on the Science Citation Index, an international, multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of science and technology produced by the Institute for Scientific Information. Updated weekly, SciSearch covers the 3,300 journals from Science Citation Index plus an additional 1,300 publications in science and technology. Mathematics coverage is limited.

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Electronic Journals


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Bibliographies - New Books and Collected Works




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Selected Print Resources


The following reference sources are provided as starting points for research. This is NOT a comprehensive listing of all relevant books for mathematics. Many more excellent materials can be found by browsing in the Reference section of Branson Library in the general call number area for Mathematics in QA's
DICTIONARIES


CALL NO: REF QA5 I8313 1987
TITLE: Iwanami sugaku jiten. English.
MAIN TITLE: Encyclopedic dictionary of mathematics / by the Mathematical Society of Japan ; edited by Kiyosi Ito.
EDITION: 2nd ed.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1987.

CALL NO: REF QA5 .N48 1993
TITLE: Mathematics Dictionary and Handbook
AUTHOR: Nichols, Eugene D. and Sharon L. Schawrtz, M.S.
PUBLISHER: Nichols Schwartz Publishing

CALL NO: HA17 K4 1990
AUTHOR: Marriott, F. H. C. (Francis Henry Charles)
MAIN TITLE: A dictionary of statistical terms.
EDITION: 5th ed. / prepared for the International Statistical Institute
PUBLISHER: Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England

CALL NO: REF QA5 I5
MAIN TITLE: The International dictionary of applied mathematics. [W. F. Freiberger, editor-in-chief]
PUBLISHER: Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand [1960]

CALL NO: QA5 A493
AUTHOR: Matematicheskii institut im. V.A. Steklova.
MAIN TITLE: Anglo-russkii slovar' matematicheskikh terminov. Redaktsionnaia Kollegiia : P. S. Aleksandrov [i. dr.]

CALL NO: HA17 K6
AUTHOR: Kotz, Samuel.
MAIN TITLE: Russian-English dictionary of statistical terms and expressions, and Russian reader in statistics. By Samuel Kotz, with the collaboration of Wassily Hoeffding.

CALL NO: QA5 H9
AUTHOR: Hyman, Charles J.
MAIN TITLE: German-English mathematics dictionary, compiled and edited by Charles Hyman.
PUBLISHER: [New York] Interlanguage Dictionaries [1960]


ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND HANDBOOKS


CALL NO: REF Q121 M3 1992
MAIN TITLE: McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology : an international reference work in twenty volumes including
EDITION: 7th ed.
PUBLISHER: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1992.

CALL NO: REF QA40 V18 1977
MAIN TITLE: The VNR concise encyclopedia of mathematics / W. Gellert [et al.], editors ; K. A. Hirsch, H. Reichardt, scientific advisors.
EDITION: 1st American ed.
PUBLISHER: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977, c1975.

CALL NO: QA40 K598 1968
AUTHOR: Korn, Granino Arthur, 1922-
MAIN TITLE: Mathematical handbook for scientists and engineers; definitions, theorems, and formulas for reference and review [by] Granino A. Korn [and] Theresa M. Korn.
EDITION: 2nd, enl. and rev. ed.
PUBLISHER: New York, McGraw-Hill [c1968]

CALL NO: QA36 H36
MAIN TITLE: Handbook of applicable mathematics / chief editor, Walter Ledermann.
PUBLISHER: Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, c1981-

CALL NO: HA17 I63
MAIN TITLE: International encyclopedia of statistics / edited by William H. Kruskal, Judith M. Tanur.
PUBLISHER: New York : Free Press, c1978-

CALL NO: REF QA276.14 E5
MAIN TITLE: Encyclopedia of statistical sciences / editors-in-chief, Samuel Kotz, Norman L. Johnson ; associate editor, Campbell B. Read.
PUBLISHER: New York : Wiley, c1982-


TABLES


CALL NO: RefA QA47 C42s
TITLE: CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae.
LOCATION: RefIndexArea

CALL NO: REF QA276.25 C72 1991
MAIN TITLE: CRC standard probability and statistics tables and formulae / editor, William H. Beyer.
PUBLISHER: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 1991.

CALL NO: REF QA47 F55 1962
AUTHOR: Fletcher, Alan.
MAIN TITLE: An index of mathematical tables.


BIOGRAPHY


CALL NO: REF BIOG Q141 D5
MAIN TITLE: Dictionary of scientific biography / Charles Coulston Gillispie, editor-in-chief.
PUBLISHER: New York : Scribner, [1970-]

CALL NO: REF BIOG QA28 .N66 1998
MAIN TITLE: Notable Mathematicians: From Ancient Times to the Present / Robyn V. Young, editor.
PUBLISHER: Gale Research

CALL NO: REF BIOG QA28 N68 1998
MAIN TITLE: Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary / edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl.
PUBLISHER: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

CALL NO: REF BIOG QA28 B54 1986
MAIN TITLE: The Biographical dictionary of scientists. Mathematicians / general editor, David Abbott.
EDITION: 1st American ed.
PUBLISHER: New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1986, c1985.


CALL NO: REF BIOG Q141 B53
MAIN TITLE: Biographical encyclopedia of scientists / [edited by John Daintith, Sarah Mitchell, Elizabeth Tootill].
PUBLISHER: New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Inc., c1981.

CALL NO: Q141 B29
AUTHOR: Barr, E. Scott (Ernest Scott), 1905-
MAIN TITLE: An index to biographical fragments in unspecialized scientific journals, by E. Scott Barr.
PUBLISHER: University, Ala., University of Alabama Press [c1973]

CALL NO: REF BIOG Q141 Am35
TITLE: American men & women of science.
LOCATION: Copy 1 Branson: RefBiog

CALL NO: REF BIOG Q141 M15 1980
MAIN TITLE: McGraw-Hill modern scientists and engineers.
PUBLISHER: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1980.

CALL NO: Q145 W52 1978
MAIN TITLE: Who's who in science in Europe: a new reference guide to West European scientists.
PUBLISHER: Guernsey, F. Hodgson, 1967.

CALL NO: QA1 Z46m
TITLE: Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und Ihre Grenzgebiete.

CALL NO: QA276 A1 C87
TITLE: Current index to statistics, applications, methods and theory.


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Newsgroups and Listservs

Newsgroup Examples Listserv Examples
Another means for exchanging useful information within the mathematics discipline using e-mail. The following are examples of listservs available:

COM-ALG (Commutative Algebra Discussions)

CTI-MATHS (Mathematicians interested in the use of computers or teaching in higher education)

GRAPHNET (Graph Theory Discussions)

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Preprint Servers


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Associations and Societies


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Mathematic Internet Links

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Science Museums

Museum Sites
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Mathematics Departments and Institutes




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