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Guide to Selected Resources for Mathematics
Journals
Use the library catalog to find which journals the Libraries own electronically and in print. To find electronic journals only, use the e-journal search. If you are looking for journal articles on a topic or by author, search one of the databases or article indexes listed below.
Journal Articles via Databases and Article Indexes
Search databases and indexes to find articles owned or made accessible by KU Libraries. Many of the databases provide electronic full-text of articles or provide links to the full-text.
MathSciNet
Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. It is produced by the American Mathematical Society and includes over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. It provides citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews based on the reference lists from over 300 journals.
Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals spanning a broad spectrum of disciplines, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
Web of Science
Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum. It includes Science Citation Index (1900-present).
ArXiv.org E-print Archive
ArXiv is a collection of electronic pre-prints and an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.
Jahrbuch Database: Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics
Provides access to mathematics literature published from 1868 to 1942 through a database based on the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik and an archive of digitized mathematical publications at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Full-text Articles
Access to full-text articles is provided in many databases, either directly or through a link. In addition, the KU Link button is provided in many databases. Click on this button for your options for obtaining the full-text article. Another way to find the full-text of articles is to search the library catalog by journal title. If you would like print journal articles scanned and delivered electronically to your desktop, request this service through Request Materials. If the KU Libraries doesn’t own or provide access to an article, you may request it from another library through Request Materials.
Books
Search MathSciNet to find books and evaluative book reviews. Search the Library Catalog to find the books that the Libraries’ own. Search WorldCat or Google Books to find books available in libraries worldwide. Use Request Materials to borrow books not owned by KU Libraries. Use Google Books to search the full-text of millions of books.
Electronic Books
Electronic books owned or made accessible by KU Libraries are included in the library catalog.
Springer Books
The full-text of all books that Springer published from 2005 to the present is available through the library catalog
and throughSpringerLink.
Books published by the American Mathematical Society available for free download in PDF format.
Links to Mathematics Books Online
A growing and comprehensive list of links to math e-books maintained by the American Mathematical Society
Dissertations
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
PQDT provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database.
Dictionaries
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
James, Robert C., Mathematics Dictionary, 5th ed., 1992
QA 5 .J33 1992 Anschutz Reference
Encyclopedias
MathWorldTM is an extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
PlanetMath is a virtual community that provides free online access to mathematical knowledge. Its content is created collaboratively. The main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia which features entries written and reviewed by members. Other features include books, expositions, papers, and forums.
AccessScience : encyclopedia of science & technology online
Features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition which provides authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Its continuously updated content also includes definitions of scientific and technical terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies, biographies, news, and videos.
On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is useful in helping mathematicians determine whether a sequence has ever been seen before or to find difficult to compute sequences.
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, An updated and annotated translation of the Soviet Mathematical Encyclopaedia, Ed. M. Hazewinkel, 1995.
QA 5 .M3713 1995 volumes 1-6 Anschutz Reference
This is the standard mathematics encyclopedia with medium length entries.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, by the Mathematical Society of Japan, Ed. Kiyosi Ito, 2nd ed.
QA 5 .I8313 1987 volumes 1-4 Anschutz Reference
Handbooks
CRC Handbook of Mathematical Sciences, Ed. William H. Beyer, 6th ed., 1987.
QA 47 .H324 1987 Anschutz Reference
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, Ed. Daniel Zwilliger, 31st ed., 2003
QA 47 .M315 Anschutz Reference
Zwillinger, Daniel and Kokoska, Stephen, CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae
QA 273.3 .Z95 2000 Anschutz Reference
Handbook of Applied Mathematics: Selected Results and Methods, Ed.Carl E. Pearson, 2nd ed., 1983.
QA 40 .H34 1983 Anschutz Reference
Jeffrey, Alan, Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Integrals
QA 47 .J38 2004 Anschutz Reference
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs and Mathematical Tables, Eds. Milton Abramowitz and Irene A Stegun, 1972
QA 47 .H315 1972 Anschutz Reference
Gradshtein I.S. and Ryzhik, I. M., Table of Integrals, Series and Products, 6th ed.
QA 55 .G6613 2000 c. 2 Anschutz Reference
Contains an encyclopedic collection of information about mathematical functions including the interrelationships between the special functions of mathematical physics and the elementary functions of mathematical analysis as well as the interrelationships between the functions within each group.
Directory
Directory of members of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
Biographies
American Men and Women of Science
Q 141 .A474 24 ed. Anschutz Reference
Short biographical entries which provide current position, field, address, education, birth date, awards, and professional and career information for distinguished North American scientists.
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
A website created by Agnes Scott College in Atlanta Georgia to illustrate the past and present achievement of women in mathematics.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 24th ed., Ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie
Q 141 .D5 v.1-18 Anschutz Reference
Scholarly essays on the lives, careers and publications of noteworthy deceased scientists from antiquity to the 1970s.
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Ed. Noretta Koertge
Continues the tradition of Dictionary of Scientific Biography into the twenty-first century and includes photographs of scientists and images of their publications.
Q 141 .N45 2008 v.1-8 Anschutz Reference
Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography
Compiled by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland.
This project aims to list all mathematicians worldwide who have received a doctorate degree. Each degree recipient entry includes the name of the institution which awarded the degree, year the degree was awarded, complete title of the dissertation, name of advisor, and names of his/her students who have received doctoral degrees.
Notable Women in Mathematics: a Biographical Dictionary, Ed. By Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl
QA 28 .N68 1998 Anschutz Reference
Includes fifty-nine living or deceased women mathematicians, some recognized leaders in their fields and some young women who have shown great promise.
Writing
Gillman, Leonard, Writing Mathematics Well: a Manual for Authors, MAA
QA 42 .G55 1987 Anschutz
A lively guide to mathematical writing that covers technical aspects of writing from organization, title selection, presentation of results, revision, word selection, and use of symbols.
Higham, Nicholas J., Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM
QA 42 .H54 1993 Anschutz
Intended as a handbook in mathematical writing for graduate students, this book covers English usage, anatomy of a research paper, revising a draft, the publication process, writing when English is a foreign language, writing slides for a talk, and typesetting in TeX.
Krantz, Steven G., A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read and Appreciated, AMS
QA 42 .K73 1997
Covers the techniques for the effective writing of articles, books, letters of recommendations, book reviews, referee’s reports, vitae, and grant proposals, as well as the use of TeX and other document preparation systems.
American Mathematical Society’s TeX Resources
Student Study Aids
A question and answer service for math students which includes a searchable archive and FAQ.
An internet utility for learning and practicing calculus that lets you know immediately if your answers are correct.
The Library of Math: Online Math Organized by Subject Into Topics
Provides interactive multimedia learning units to facilitate the understanding of math topics at the high school and college level.
Contains a list of links to math textbooks available free on the web.
Links
Math related links from KU Mathematics Department
The American Mathematical Society’s collection of highly useful websites including sites providing abstracting services, mathematical literature organized by topic, electronic books, electronic journals, the AMS Classification, mathematical software, addresses, reference literature, society and association websites, mathematics department websites, tools for the web and searching, and more.
Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA (Special Libraries Association)
If you have questions or comments, please contact:
Julie Waters
Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy Librarian
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