Mathematics/Statistics

Ready Reference	Searching for Books	Bibliographies and Indexes	Electronic  Publications
Organizations	Current Awareness	WWW Sites

Ready Reference Sources

• CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
  QA5.W45 1999 Ref.
• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics.
  QA5.M3713 1988 Ref.
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. 4 vols.
  QA5.I8313 1987 Ref.
• Mathematics Dictionary.
  QA5.J33 1992 Ref.
• Notable Women in Mathematics.
  QA28.N68 1998 Ref.
• Calculators On-Line Center: Mathematics and Statistics
• Citation Check, a free service of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik.
• Favorite Mathematical Constants
• Mathematical Atlas : A gateway to modern mathematics
• S.O.S Mathematics Tables and Functions

• Browse the QA section of the stacks, or
• Search the Five College Online Library Catalog by author, title or subject.
• Search the Multi-repository Mathematics Collections for hosted by the University of Michigan provides access to digitized books, e.g., in Cornell Univ.'s Historical Mathematical Monographs, the Mathematics Collection from Göttingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math Collection.

Bibliographies and Indexes

• MathSciNet online database of Mathematical Reviews (MR).
  • keyword searching of Mathematics Subject Classification used in MR and MathSciNet.
• Zentralblatt fur Mathematik / Mathematics Abstracts
  • Zentralblatt Math Database the complete run (1931- ) of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik is searchable at this German site. You can get up to 3 results from each search (demo mode -- we do not have a subscription). Free service: Citation checker.
• Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
  • free web access to older CIS database (up to 1996)
• Science Citation Index (ISI's Web of Science): a major web-based service covering 5,700 journals in science (1945- ) and over 2,000 in other disciplines. Special feature: search by cited reference (to find newer papers that refer to an earlier known work).
• Electronic Library of Mathematics
• Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM): a digital archive of important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the "Jahrbuch Ÿber die Fortschritte der Mathematik". Links to the World Digital Mathematical Library.

Electronic Publications:

E-journal mega-lists:

• Mathematics Journals (useful list of e-journals, compiled by Mathematical Reviews staff)
• Yahoo's Science: Mathematics: Journals
• Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB). You can search by journal title or browse lists of free fulltext journals by subject area, e.g., Mathematics.

The electronic versions of our journal subscriptions are accessible via our campus network or through EZProxy authentication:

Please search the Online Library Catalog by journal title if you are seeking a specific title. You should also be able to connect directly that title.

Or try Five College E-Journal Locator (SFX): identify digital resources held by MHC and the Five Colleges. Note: This service does not yet contain all of our holdings, but it does search collections such as Academic Search Premier, BioOne, JSTOR, etc. The "Citation Linker" will go to the full-text of a specific article if you provide the exact volume and page numbers.

We have subscriptions to many SIAM journals, and to a significant JSTOR collection of journal backfiles in Mathematics and Statistics.

SOME electronic journal content is currently available free without subscription. Selected examples:

• Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics
• HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles (Long list of journals, mostly in biological sciences, published online with the assistance of HighWire Press; annotated to indicate which portions of each journal are accessible free.)
• Journal of Statistics Education, a refereed electronic journal on postsecondary teaching of statistics.

Organizations

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• European Mathematical Society (EMS)
• International Mathematical Union (IMU)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Women and Mathematics Education (WME)
• Other associations, organizations and societies (long list at AMS's website)

• Current Mathematical Publications (CMP) is a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications. Updated daily on MathSciNet. (Most items are later reviewed in MR. All items in MR appear first in CMP. The MR record for an item with a review replaces the CMP record for that item.)
• Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers (AMS)
• Front for the Mathematics ArXiv (UC Davis)
• Mathematics Preprints links to several preprint services, including xxx.lanl.gov(ArXiv).
• Prepublications: databases of preprints from mathematical institutions in France (in French).
• Ingenta: free access to tables of contents for over 25,000 publications, searchable by title keyword, author, or periodical title. Ingenta provides links to full-text of 4500 publications (free for subscribers, or pay-per-view).

The list below is just a sample. It includes some of the best "metasites", sites that include links to many more sites, organized by subject or theme or format. These are excellent starting places for exploring the mathematics and statistics resources on the web.

• Mathematics on the Web
• Classified arrangement of Web sites using MR Subject Classification codes
• Mathematics Information Servers Penn State index
• Online Resources for Mathematics (Antonella De Robbio, CERN)
• WWW Virtual Library: Statistics (U of Florida, Dept of Statistics)
• History of Mathematics Archive articles about history; biographies of 1100 famous mathemeticians; index to female mathematicians.
• MathWorld from Eric Weisstein and Wolfram Research
• Metamath  language to express theorems in abstract mathematics with computer verified proofs
• Number Theory Web Site
• VassarStats introductory statistics
• Finding and using data: statistics data sources and search engines
• Mathematics textbooks free online math textbooks by topic
  
• Women in Mathematics
  • Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Biographies of Women Mathematicians Agnes Scott College website
  • 4000 Years of Women in Science includes biographies listed by subject-discipline
  • Third World Organization for Women in Science
  • WomenInMath project (U of Oregon) including bibliographies about issues re women in math
  • Women And Mathematics: A Program for Winning Women into Mathematics, administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
  • Women In Mathematics: A web service from the Canadian Mathematics Society for the promotion and celebration of women in mathematics.