Mathematics Research Guide

This is a general research guide for the undergraduate and graduate courses in OSU's Math program. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and factual information. If further assistance is needed, please contact the subject librarian for Math: Uta Hussong (737-7278), Uta.Hussong@oregonstate.edu

 

 
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Table of Contents
Finding Books in Online Catalogs       Useful Internet Sites
Finding Articles in Journals Reference Sources
Dictionaries& thesauri
Encyclopedias
Handbooks & directories
Associations
People
History of Mathematics



Finding Books in Online Catalogs

The OSU Libraries online catalog is a listing of materials owned by OSU Libraries. It can be used to find books related to math.

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Finding Articles in Journals

  • Academic Search Premier -- Library web 1990-present.
    Indexes about 1250 publications including general interest and scientific magazines and some newspapers as well as many research journals. Abstracts included and many articles are full-text. The Valley Library subscribes to most of the magazines and journals indexed in this database. Useful for finding information on current issues in the news media.
  • MathSciNet (Math Reviews) -- Abstracts and index: 1940-present
    Covers research literature from all areas of mathematics, both theoretical and applied, and also covers related areas such as computer science, engineering, physics and statistics. This database corresponds to the printed indexes, Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
  • PapersFirst/ProceedingsFirst -- Index only: 1993-present
    Index to conferences and the papers presented at them. Use PapersFirst to search by author or paper title. Use ProceedingsFirst to search by subject or conference name.
  • ArticleFirst -- Index only: 1990-present
    Indexes articles from over 12,500 journals in all fields. Use ArticleFirst to search by author, title and keyword. Also contains table of contents and holdings information for the ArticleFirst journals; search by journal name, journal subject or year.
  • Dissertation Abstracts -- Abstracts and index: 1861-present
    Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses in all academic disciplines completed at U.S. institutions. Abstracts only since 1980.
  • Science Citation Index -- Index only: 1987-present
    CD Network - Use limited to campus network. - Index of cited articles from over 5000 scientific journals in all areas of science. Search by cited author, original author, title keywords or journal name.
  • WorldCat
    Index to over 30 million records cataloged by most North American and European libraries. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts. Materials date back to the 11th century.
  • Current Index to statistics, applications, methods and theory. (Valley Reference QA276.A1 C87)
    An annual index to articles in statistics.

Electronic journals

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Reference Sources

 

Dictionaries & thesauri

Encyclopedias

Handbooks & directories

Associations

People

History of Mathematics

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Other Useful Internet Sites

  • MathSearch - Search engine for 90,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the web; maintained by the University of Sydney, Australia
    http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html
  • NetFirst - Index of internet sites searchable by subject, title, author, etc.
    http://osulibrary.orst.edu/research/databases/dbtitle.htm#N
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  • WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics - Organized site of Internet resources, categorized by subject
    http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html
  • Calculus Applied to Probability and Statistics for Liberal Arts and Business Majors - A Complete Text Resource by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble
    http://www.hofstra.edu/~matscw/cprob/cprobintro.html
  • CAMEL: Canadian Mathematical Electronic Services - The web service of the Canadian Mathematical Community
    http://camel.math.ca/home.html
  • Dave's Math Tables
    http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm
  • The Electronic Library of Mathematics - Links to electronic journals, proceedings, and monographs
    http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.html
  • Electronic Sources for Mathematics - University of Pennsylvania site
    http://www.math.upenn.edu/MathSources.html
  • Euclid's Elements, Introduction - Developed by David E. Joyce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University
    http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
  • Favorite Mathematical Constants - Site maintained by Steven Finch; very descriptive definitions of various mathematical constants
    http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/constant.html
  • Finite mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource Page - Site maintained by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble, Hosfra University
    http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/index.html
  • Forum Internet Resource Collection - Swarthmore developed site identifying mathematics-related internet resources
    http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library
  • The Four Color Theorem - This page gives a brief summary of a new proof of the Four Color Theorem and a four-coloring algorithm found by Neil Robertson, Daniel P. Sanders, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas.
    http://www.math.gatech.edu/~thomas/FC/fourcolor.html
  • The Geometry Center - An archive of resources on the teaching of geometry.
    http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/
  • Geometry Junkyard - David Eppstein (UC Irvine) maintains these pages which contain usenet clippings, web pointers, lecture notes, research excerpts, papers, abstracts, programs, problems, and other stuff related to discrete and computational geometry
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/
  • Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes - A list of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and in general many non-math people.
    http://www.mathmistakes.com/
  • Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) - A cross-index and virtual repository of mathematical and statistical software components of use in computational science and engineering.
    http://gams.nist.gov/
  • Internet Resources - University of Minnesota Math Library site
    http://math.lib.umn.edu/resource.html
  • Jahrbuch Project Letter - The Capture of the Mathematical Literature from 1868 to 1942: A Proposal to Make a Database from Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik
    http://0-www.ams.org.oasis.oregonstate.edu/mathweb/MRInfo/jbuch-letter.html
  • Math Journal Prices - Dr. Rob Kirby's letter concerning the high price of most math journals and discussing what mathematicians might do about it
    http://math.berkeley.edu/~kirby/journals.html
  • The Mathematical Atlas: a gateway to modern mathematics - A collection of short articles designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information
    http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/welcome.html
  • Mathematical Snippets - Bellevue Community College site with short descriptions of notable mathematical ideas and results
    http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/MathSnips.html
  • Mathematics Archives WWW Server
    http://archives.math.utk.edu/
  • The Pi Pages - J. M. Borwein's site devoted to Pi; currently Gordon M. Shrum Professor of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University
    http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/
  • A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis
    http://paos.colorado.edu/research/wavelets/
  • Read This! Book Reviews - MAA Online - Book reviews of mathematics-related books
    http://www.maa.org/reviews/reviews.html
  • Robbins Algebras Are Boolean - These Web pages by William McCune contain some information on the solution of the Robbins problem.
    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/mccune/ar/robbins/
  • Science Watch - Mathematics Links - Organized collection of mathematical resources; maintained by Charles Daney
    http://www.best.com/~cgd/home/sci/mathl.htm
  • A short course in trigonometry - Developed by David E. Joyce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University
    http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/trig/
  • Trigonometric Functions and Calculus for Liberal Arts and Business Majors - A Complete Text Resource by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble
    http://www.hofstra.edu/~matscw/trig/trigintro.html
  • Virtual Reality Polyhedra - George W. Hart's growing collection of over 1000 virtual reality polyhedra.
    http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html
  • Zona Land - Educational and entertaining items pertaining to physics, to the mathematical sciences, and to mathematics in general
    http://id.mind.net/~zona
  • Reference Resources in Mathematics

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