[University of South Alabama]

Mathematics & Statistics

Selected Resources

http://library.southalabama.edu

January 2008
(251) 460-7025

This is a guide to library resources that may prove useful. It is not an exhaustive list. Please consult a reference librarian, call 460-7025, or send e-mail to webref@jaguar1.usouthal.edu for help in locating additional materials.

INDEXES TO ARTICLES

MathSciNet. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
Academic Search Premier.From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
Current Index to Statistics: free access through 2000
Digital Dissertations/Dissertation Abstracts. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
Expanded Academic ASAP
. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
ISI Web of Science: online Science Citation Index
JSTOR. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
Oxford Journals Online
: From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
ScienceDirect. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.
Scirus
: searches the web, including online journals, for scientific information only.
Wiley Interscience. From library homepage. Choose Articles, Indexes, Databases.

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics Ref. QA 276.15 .E84 1998
Dictionary of Quotations in Mathematics. Ref. QA 99 .D53 2002
Dictionary of Statistical Terms. 5th ed. Ref. HA 17 .K4 1990
Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Ref. QA 11 .E665 2001
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Ref QA 5 .I8313 1986
International Encyclopedia of Statistics. Ref. HA 17 .I63
Mathematics Dictionary (James & James). 5th ed. Ref. QA 5 .J33 1992
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Mathematics. Ref. QA 5 .M425 1997
Systems & Control Encyclopedia: Ref QA 402 .S968 1987
Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science. Ref. Q 123 .U43 1998

HANDBOOKS AND TABLES

Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, . . . . Ref. QA 49 .B34 1962
CRC Handbook of Mathematical Sciences. Ref. QA 47 .H324 1978
CRC Handbook of Tables for Probability and Statistics. Ref. QA 276.25 .B48 1968
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables & Formulae. Ref. QA 47 .M315 (1996)
Handbook of Applied Mathematics. Ref. QA 40 .P38
Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry: Bookstacks. QA 167 .H36 1997
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
Handbook of Parametric & Nonparametric Statistical Procedures. Ref. QA 276.25 .S54 2004
Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics  & Science Education
. Bookstacks. QA 11 .H256 2000
Handbook of Small Data Sets. Bookstacks. QA 276.25 .H36 1994
Kendall’s Advanced Theory of Statistics. Ref. QA 276 .K4262 1994 v.1 & v.2B
Knovel K-Essentials: access to International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Knovel Critical Tables, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.
New Cambridge Statistical Tables. Ref. QA 276.25 .L56 1995
Random Numbers in Uniform & Normal Distribution. Ref. QA 276.5 .C55
Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics. Ref. QA 276.25 .S43 1988
Table of Integrals, Series and Products. Ref. QA 55 .G6613 2000
Tables of Integrals and Other Mathematical Data. Bookstacks. QA 310 .D8 1961

BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

African American Firsts in Science & Technology. Ref. Q 141 .W43 1999
African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention. Ref. Q 141 .S6285 2003
American Men & Women of Science. Ref. Q 141 .A471
Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians. Ref. QA 28 .B534 1991 v. 1- 4
Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Ref. Q 141 .B528 1994
Biography & Genealogy Master Index. Library homepage. Electronic Reference Books.
Biography Reference Back. Library homepage. Electronic Reference Books.
Breakthroughs: a Chronology . . . in Science and Mathematics, 1200 – 1930. Ref. Q 125 .P327 1985
Breakthroughs in Statistics. Bookstacks. QA 276 .A12 B74 1992
Concise History of Mathematics. Bookstacks. QA 21 .S87 1987
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ref. Q 141 .D5
Elements of the History of Mathematics. Bookstacks. QA 21 .B7613 1999
History of Japanese Mathematics. Bookstacks. QA 27 .J3 S5 2004
History of School Mathematics. Bookstacks. QA 11.2 .H57 2003 v. 1 - 2
Mathematics elsewhere : an exploration of ideas across cultures. Bookstacks. QA 21 .A83 2002
Men of Mathematics. Bookstacks. QA 28 .B4 1986
Notable Women in Mathematics. Ref. QA 28 .N68 1998
Women of Mathematics. Ref. QA 28 .W66 1987

SUGGESTIONS FOR LOCATING ADDITIONAL BOOKS IN SOUTHcat CATALOG

Try Subject searches:

Try Keyword searches:

mathematical analysis – history   

math? and history

point set theory  

“point set? ” and theory

topology  

algebra? and topolog?

mathematicians – biography 

(math? or scienc?) and biography

knot theory

knot? or braid?

ONLINE BOOKS

American Mathematical Society Books Online: free. http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html
Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs: http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/index.html
GDZ Digital Library: Mathematica includes books  & journals. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html
NetLibrary: USA faculty, staff and students only. From Library homepage, choose Electronic Books. These books can also be searched for by subject in SOUTHcat Catalog.

SELECTED ELECTRONIC FULL-TEXT JOURNALS

Advances in applied mathematics  (ScienceDirect)
Advances in geometry (Academic Search Premier)
Algebraic and Geometric Topology
American journal of mathematics (Expanded Academic ASAP, JSTOR)
Annals of mathematics (JSTOR, Directory of Open Access Journals)
Applied mathematics & optimization  (Military & Government Collection)
Applied stochastic models in business and industry  (Wiley Interscience)
Asymptotic analysis (Military & Government Collection)
Chaos, solitons and fractals (ScienceDirect)
Communications on pure and applied mathematics (Wiley Interscience)
Conformal geometry and dynamics (American Mathematical Society)
Discrete mathematics (ScienceDirect)
Discrete mathematics and applications (Military & Government Collection)
Electronic communications in probability (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
Ergodic theory and dynamical systems (Cambridge Journals Online)
Geometry and Topology
Journal of statistical planning and inference (ScienceDirect)
Michigan mathematical journal (Project Euclid)
Micromath : a journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics  (Professional Development Collection)
Probability theory and related fields (Military & Government Collection)
Quarterly journal of mathematics (Oxford Journals Online)
Representation Theory (American Mathematical Society)
Statistical science (JSTOR)
Statistics & probability letters (ScienceDirect)
Topology (ScienceDirect)
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (JSTOR, American Mathematical Society)

INTERNET RESOURCES

Careers in Mathematics and Statistics.http://www.ucfv.bc.ca/math/Careers_in_Mathematics_and_Statistics.htm
Faces of Sciences: https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/profession/m2.html#Mathematicians
lanl.arXiv.org: Mathematics. Pre-print archive. http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/math
Math in Daily Life. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
MathSearch: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html
Science.gov: Mathematics: http://www.science.gov/browse/w_129B.htm
StatSci.org. http://www.statsci.org/
Mathematics WWW Virtual Library. http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics. http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

For more mathematics and statistics web sites, see Math & Statistics on the University Library’s web site at http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/picks/math.htm

 

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