Mathematics Librarian and Collection Development Analyst
Reference Sources
- Wikipedia Mathematics PortalAn organized gateway to mathematics pages in Wikipedia.
- Wolfram MathWorldOnline mathematics encyclopedia
- Encyclopaedia of Mathematicsby Michiel Hazewinkel (Editor)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics by Call Number: QA5 .I8313Publication Date: 1987Translated from 1985 third edition of the Japanese encyclopedia, first edition published in 1954. In-depth articles.
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences by Call Number: QA21 .C645Publication Date: 1994Two-volume encyclopedia containing 176 articles on history of mathematics.
What Is Mathematics? by Call Number: QA37 .C675Publication Date: Many editions. First published 1941."It is a work of high perfection, whether judged by aesthetic, pedagogical or scientific standards. It is astonishing to what extent What is Mathematics? has succeeded in making clear by means of the simplest examples all the fundamental ideas and methods which we mathematicians consider the life blood of our science."
-Hermann Weyl
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Call Number: QA11.2 .P745Publication Date: 2008Edited by Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers, and written by some of the world's leading mathematicians. History of modern mathematics, major concepts and branches, famous theorems and problems, and brief biographies of mathematicians.
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning by Call Number: QA36 .A453Publication Date: 1963English translation of classic Russian survey of modern mathematics first published in 1956 and written by 18 outstanding mathematicians.
Using the Mathematics Literature by Call Number: QA41.7 .U85Publication Date: 2004Pathfinder into the literature, organized by branches of mathematics, and by types of literature.
Handbook of Applicable Mathematics by Call Number: QA36 .H36Publication Date: 1980-19846 Volume readable survey of applicable mathematics, with mathematical detail but for non-specialists.
An Atlas of Functions by Publication Date: 2010Second edition, with Equator, the Atlas Function Calculator. Provides comprehensive information on several hundred functions or function families.
- NIST Digital Library of FunctionsA replacement for the 1964 Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Publication Date: 1964
Table of Integrals, Series, and Products by Call Number: QA55 .G6613Publication Date: 2014The eighth edition of the classic Gradshteyn and Ryzhik table of integrals.
- Mathematics Subject ClassificationClassification system used in MathSciNet and ZentralBlatt databases of Mathematical Reviews. How mathematics literature is organized.
- American Mathematical Society Data on the Mathematics ProfessionSurvey data and other information on the mathematics profession in the US.