Mathematics Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Articles

MathSciNet
Produced by the American Mathematical Association, this databases indexes international literature on mathematics, statistics, and computer science, as well as their applications to a broad range of other disciplines.

General Science Abstracts
Indexes periodicals on astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, math, medicine, and physics, 1983 to present.

Science Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Keyword and citation indexing of major journals across scientific disciplines, 1981 to present. Web of Science also includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.

JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

Reference

Annual Reviews
Full text of annual summaries of scholarship in over three dozen academic disciplines.

Web Sites

ArXiv
Searchable access to nearly half a million open access (free full text) e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics

American Mathematical Society
Provides access to searching for articles published in AMS journals as well as general information on the Society and mathematics. NOTE: Journal searching is free and will find abstracts, but full text access requires a password for the journal in question.

Mathematical Association of America
Provides access to search Association journals and mathematical news and resources.

Dictionary of Units
Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement in use today, along with the appropriate conversions needed to change them into standard units of the SI system. Includes access to 40 different calculators for automatic conversions, and a printable pocket guide listing the most common conversion units.

VassarStats: statistical computation Web site
Covers all basic topics in an introductory statistics course and is a user-friendly tool for performing statistical computation.

Mathematics archives
Provides organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources, primarily focused on materials used in the teaching of mathematics. Links to other sites providing mathematical software.

The Wolfram functions site
"Contains the world's most encyclopedic collection of information about mathematical functions and details the interrelationships between the special functions of mathematical physics and the elementary functions of mathematical analysis as well as the interrelationships between the functions in each group."

Web interface for statistics education (WISE)
Provides tutorials and other resources for exploring statistical concepts, as well as providing easy access to freely available internet resources.

Algebasics
An easy to use tutorial in secondary level algebra.

Metamath proof explorer
Contains over 6,000 completely worked out proofs in logic and set theory, interconnected with over a million hyperlinked cross-references.

Number Theory Web
A collection of links to online information of interest to number theorists, including links to number theorists, downloadable number theory routines, number theory centers, and information on almost any topic in number theory, such as FLT, elliptic curves, Lehmer's Conjecture, and the Riemann Hypothesis.

Scitopia.org
Serves as an online gateway to the published scholarly research, patents, and government documents of 15 affliated societies in teh fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, and geosciences. Searching of abstracts is free, but a password or payment is required to view articles.

The Prime Pages
Devoted to the understanding of prime numbers. Includes definitions, lists of known prime numbers, and links to other sites addressing the topic.