Research Resources for Mathematics

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Wellesley College Library catalog
In addition to books, you will also find journals, videos, and more.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Wellesley College faculty, students, and staff may use Interlibrary Loan and or other Document Delivery services to
borrow or obtain copies of materials not found in Wellesley's collection.

Other nearby library catalogs
Links to other nearby libraries.

WorldCat ^WC
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

National Academies Press
At the National Academy Press web site, you can search over 3,000 full-text books online for specific subject terms, in order to locate relevant chapters or book titles. Coverage includes subjects like physical sciences, materials science/engineering, environmental issues, and more.

Floor Map of Science Library

Find background information

AccessScience ^WC
Access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.

Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians. Science Ref q QA28 B534 1991

CRC Standard Math Tables Science Ref. QA 47 C53 1987

Dictionary of Mathematics. Science Ref QA 5 D4988 1999

Favorite Mathematical Constants
Steven Finch has grouped lots of constants into major areas like number theory, geometry, approximation of functions, analytic inequalities, etc.

Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics. Science Ref QA 164 H36 2000

Handbook of Differential Equations Science. Ref QA 371 Z88 1992

Oxford Reference Online ^WC
Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Science Ref QA 241 W36 1997

Time lines of mathematicians from 800 BC to recent times.

The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Science Ref QA 40 V18 1989

Find articles and essays

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published).
Once you have a citation for an article, use the Find It! @ Wellesley link from each citation to search one or more electronic journal sources through the Wellesley College Library Catalog. Use the name of the journal as the title. If Wellesley does not own the article, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

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arXiv
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

Cryptology ePrint Archive
The Cryptology ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. Papers have been placed here by the authors and did not undergo any refereeing process other than verifying that the work seems to be within the scope of cryptology and meets some minimal acceptance criteria.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Search full-text on-line Mathematics and Statistics journals.

JSTOR ^WC
The JSTOR collection contains full-text articles from several periodicals. This is an archive, and the most recent few years are usually not available on JSTOR.

MathSciNet ^WCv
MathSciNet is the major abstracting and indexing service for mathematicians. For searching help go to to the University of California at Santa Barbara's MathSciNet Guide.

Science Direct ^WC
Full-text articles from Mathematics journals from 1995 forward.

TechXtra
TechXtra is a free service which cross-searches around twenty databases in engineering, mathematics and computing.

Web of Science ^WC
Web of Science at Wellesley consists of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is very useful in performing interdisciplinary subject searches and citation searches.

Other databases may be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. The Databases A-Z page lists all of the electronic resources and what subjects and time span they cover.

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Tracing citations

• Use the Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present) in Web of Science ^WC.

Internet links

General Math Sites:

Drexel's Math Forum, supported in part by the National Science Foundation, has many features including discussion groups, a mathematics education section, and Ask Dr. Math.

EEVL
Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. It primarily focuses on the U. K. but includes American and other international sites.

e-Math
e-Math is the American Mathematical Society's Web site.

Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics
FAQ's that the creator, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, calls the contents of this site non-trivial mathematical trivia.

Mathematics Archives Undergraduates' Page
Mathematics Archives Undergraduates' Page provides links to undergraduate publications, competitions, research, careers in math, and mathematical societies.

The Mathematical Atlas
The Mathematical Atlas is a collection of short articles designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information, as well as answers to some common (or not!) questions.

MathWorld
MathWorld is a mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities.

Mathematics Review:

Calculus Review. A professor of mathematics at San Jose State University created this online review of calculus concepts, divided into three main categories: integration, derivatives, and limits. Includes quizzes.

The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics is a Vanderbilt University professor's attempt to help students overcome the most common errors in college mathematics.

A Short Course in Trigonometry, by David Joyce. Requires that you enable Java on your web browser.

History of Mathematics:

Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Mathematics students at Agnes Scott College, a private, liberal arts college for women in Decatur, Georgia, have published their biographies of women mathematicians on the world-wide web as part of a continuing course project.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is an award winning site that includes more than 1,000 biographies of mathematicians and has special features such as applets of the famous curves, birthplace maps, timelines of mathematicians, and a searchable quotation database.

Mathematics in the News:  

The Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes is a compilation of chronic errors made by some people in advertising, reporting, politics, etc. Sources are usually given. Thanks to Paul Cox for this website.

Mathematical Digest, a publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) is a non-technical summary of mathematics in the news, often with links back to the original publications.

Contact the departmental Library liaison

Contact: Neil Nero, library research liaison to Mathematics 

Contact: Deborah Lenares, library collections liaison to Mathematics

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Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Neil Nero • last modified: March 10, 2008