Welcome!

This subject guide is the result of an ongoing collaborative effort between the library and the Mathematics & Computer Science Department to support undergraduate and faculty research needs.  Please let us know if there are any significant omissions in the site, and we will do our best to remedy the situation as soon as possible!

The Mathematics Department has a reference librarian that specifically focuses on helping the members of the department and the student math majors with any library needs.  If you have any questions regarding math resources, ordering math books, math journals available at SU, or need help going about your research, please contact her immediately - she is there to help you!

Susan E. Brazer is the current Mathematics Liaison.

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Books

Reference 

• An Atlas of Functions.  Jerome Spanier and Keith B. Oldham.  Washington: Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1987.  QA331.S685 1987

• Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences.  Edited by I. Grattan-Guiness.  London: New York: Routledge, 1994.  2 volumes.  REF QA21.C645 1994

• CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.  Eric W. Weisstein.  Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall / CRC, c1999.         REF QA5.W45

• CRC Handbook of Tables for Probability and Statistics.   Edited by William H. Beyer.  Cleveland: Chemical Rubber Company, 1966.  REF QA276.B44

• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: an updated and annotated translation of the Soviet "Mathematical Encyclopedia".  Boston: D. Reidel, c1988.  10 volumes plus two supplements.  REF QA5.E513

• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (Translation of Iwanami sugaku jiten) / The Mathematical Society of Japan.  Edited by Kiyoshi Ito.  Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press, c1987.  2 volumes.  REF QA5.I8313 1987

• Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.  Edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun.  Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.  REF QA331.A3

• Men of Mathematics.  Eric Temple Bell.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965 (c1937).  REF QA28.B4 1965

• Notable Mathematicians: from Ancient Times to the Present.  Robyn V. Young, editor; Zoran Minderovic, associate editor.  Detroit: Gale, c1998.  REF QA28.N66 1998

• Women of Mathematics: a biobibliography sourcebook.  Edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.  REF QA28.W66 1987

• The Words of Mathematics / an etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English.  Steven Schwartzman.  Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, c1994.  REF QA5.S375

• The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics.  2002.

• A Dictionary of Statistics.  2002.

General Collection

• Detection, Estimation, & Modulation.  VanTrees, Harry L.  2001.

• Adaptive Signal Processing.  B. Widrow.  1985.

• Nonparametric Statistics for Health Care Research.  Pett, Marjorie.  1997.

• Understanding the Math You Teach.  Burris, Anita C.  2004.

• Fibonacci Numbers & Their Applications.  Philippou Andreas.  2002.

• Enterprise Development with Visual Studio.  Hansen, J.  2003.

• Geometric Algebra.  Artin, Emil.  1988.

• Applying Contemporary Statistical Techniques.  Wilcox, Rand.  2003.

• An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations.  Coleman, Matthew.  2004.

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Databases

The following are some databases that we recommend, but by no means are they the only databases that are out there!

Note:  these links will ONLY work if you are trying to access them from on-campus!  For off-campus access, you will need to log-in with the 14 digit code from the back of your SU Student ID.

Computer Science

Academic Search Complete (find & select this database in the General/Multidisciplinary Category)

MasterFILE Premier (find & select this database in the General/Multidisciplinary Category)

Science Direct (find & select this database in the Science & Medicine Category)

MathDL

Project Euclid

Pure/Applied Mathematics

Academic Search Complete (find & select this database in the General/Multidisciplinary Category)

MasterFILE Premier (find & select this database in the General/Multidisciplinary Category)

Science Direct (find & select this database in the Science & Medicine Category)

MathSciNet

MathDL

Project Euclid

Statistics

• Science Direct (covers all sciences - biology, chemistry, psychology, sociology, etc.)
• BioOne (mostly straight biology)
• BioMed Central(covers medicine only)
• Ingenta(covers all disciplines)
• Business Source Premier(covers business and economics)
• Academic Search Complete(covers all disciplines)
• MasterFile Premier(covers all disciplines)
• ERIC (covers education)
• PsychInfo (covers psychology)

 

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Journals

Coming soon!

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Class Guides

Pure & Applied Mathematics
Computer Science
Statistics/Probability - Finding Aid:  Statistics Research Article Worksheet
Math Associations & Societies

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Websites

Biographies of Mathematicians

• Biographies of Mathematicians

• Biographies of Women Mathematicians

• Hall of Great Mathematicians:  a work in progress.  Includes a list of biographies that have been requested but not yet added to the collection.

• Women in Mathematics:  The Women in Math Project of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in Eugene.  Includes biographies of women in mathematics, jobs, grants, scholarship opportunities for women in mathematics, and much more.

Calculators and Converters

• The Calculators-On-Line Center:  Links to thousands of on-line calcuators in every area of human endeavor, including beekeeping, fire engine design, and cosmetics.

• ConvertIt.com - the Converstion and Calculation Center:  Measurement converter, Currency converter, world time clock and time zones, numerous calculators, and other incalculably wonderful stuff.

University-Based Mathematics Sites

• Agnes Scott College:  Biographies of and other resources for and about women in mathematics.

• California Institute of Technology:  Information about pi.  Includes a program to compute pi, numerical facts about pi, and links to other web sites related to pi.

• Cornell University:  Directory of preprint servers for various mathematical topics with links to other preprint servers and to electronic journals.
• A Collection of nearly 600 mathematics books scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library, some in English, others in French or German or Latin.   http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cdl-math-browse.html

• Florida State University:  A collection of links to mathematics web sites, including sites on education, newsgroups, preprints, electronic journals, software, and much more.

• Rutgers University:  DIMACS - the center for Discreet Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.  Collaborators are Rutgers, AT&T Labs, Telcordia Technologies, Princeton University, Bell Labs, NEC Research Institute.  Includes, among other things, a collection of 'open problems for undergraduates'.
•     Also at Rutgers, a directory of web sites related to 18th century science and mathematics:  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/science.html

• Simon Fraser University:  The mandate of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (CECM), a research center within the department of mathematics is "to explore and promote the interplay of conventional mathematics with modern computation and communication in the mathematical sciences."
• Also at Simon Fraser University: the pi pages, including the history of the computatio of pi, current records of computation, the literature of pi, pi news, pi aesthetics, and pi on the net.  http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html

• Swarthmore College:  Numerous pages on various topics in mathematics and in mathematics education at all levels from elementary to college.

• University of California at Davis:  Archive of thousands of electronic documents, maintained at Los Alamos, NM.  Documents may be searched or browsed.

• University of Saint Andrews:  "The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive" has ain index to biographies of mathematicians, an index to "famous curves", index to topics in the history of mathematics, and even a "Mathematicians of the Day" feature that will tell you which famous mathematicians died or were born on the day in question.  This is truly a wonderful site for the curious mathematician.

• University of Tennessee at Knoxville:  This site has something for almost everyone: mathematics education at all levels, plus the usual suspects (calculus, algebra, geometry, etc.), plus some outliers (fluid dynamics, art and music).

• University of Texas at El Paso:  This seems to be a commercial site hosted by UTEP.  It claims to be "your free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations".  Get help with your homework, referesh your memory, prepare for a test..."  Also has a collection of important stuff, such as tables of logarithms, algebraic identities, binomial coefficients, and so on.  Perhaps an excellent page for students.

• University of Wisconsin Marathon County:  A catalog - a very extensive catalog - of web sites on mathematics.

• Vanderbilt University:  The title of this page is "Most common errors in undergraduate mathematics".  This page is maintained by a professor at Vanderbilt.  In every class he shows his students his collection of common undergraduate mistakes and he tells them how much they will regret it if they commit one or more of these mistakes.

Miscellaneous

Math Topics:  Dozens of links to mathematical sites, including pi, history, measurement, careers, and so on.  Maintained by the Eisenhower Ntional Clearinghouse.

Michigan Electronic Library:  Dozens of links to mathematical sites, including pi, history, mathematical constants, mathematical quotations (!), and so on.

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