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Math/Stat Electronic Reference

Electronic Do's and Don'ts

Unless marked , these titles are publicly available.

Encyclopedias, Handbooks

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics Browsable by keyword, over 8,000 articles. We also have the paper copy in Reference, QA5 .M37213 1988, and a CD-ROM copy, QA5 .E59 1997 (math media), available for in library use.
MathWorld, free web version of Eric Weisstein's CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2nd ed. Dodge, Yadolah. Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics
Encyclopedia of Algorithms
Encyclopedia of Biometrics
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
Encyclopedia of Optimization, 2nd ed.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Library of Math, online mathematics organized by subject into topics.
PlanetMath, free, collaborative math encyclopedia.
PRIME: Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Encyklopaedie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen, 1st edition, 1898/1904-1904/35, and 2nd edition, 1939
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), preview release.
Abramowitz, M., and Stegun, I.A., editors. Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.
Federal Judicial Center. Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 2nd ed. 2000. See chapters on statistics, multiple regression, and survey research.
Liu, John. Mathematical handbook of formulas and tables, 2nd ed., 2000.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography , by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone.
Sloane, Neil J. A. On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Wolfram Research's Mathematical Functions
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics

Dictionaries

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
Dictionary of Statistics
American National Standard mathematical signs and symbols for use in physical sciences and technology
Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
Dictionary of Physics
Oxford Reference Online More biography, language, and subject reference works
Electronic Statistics Textbook
ISI glossary of statistical terms
Trzeciak, Jerzy. Mathematical English Usage, a Glossary
Mathematisches Wörterbuch German-English/English-German mathematical lexicon.
OneLook Dictionaries. Access to more than 2 million words in 467 dictionaries.
AMS Reference Shelf Literature--Dictionaries, Thesauri, Foreign

Biography/History

Biography and Genealogy Master Index Index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1877-
Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
A Dictionary of Scientists
History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present Accessible ONLY via Internet Explorer browser
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Poggendorff's Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften Accessible ONLY via Internet Explorer browser
Royal Society Sackler Archive Resource, a database of biographical information on past Fellows of the Royal Society, 1660-
World Biographical Information System Online
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography About 1100 entries.

Bibliographies

Tucker and Anderson. Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics (searchable Google Book access)
Bibliography of Collected Works and Correspondence of Mathematicians, by Steve Rockney, Cornell Math Library
Popular Math, by Steve Rockney, Cornell Math Library
Virtual Popular Science Library, LSU Libraries

Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, Search

"Basic CGOS Style." The Columbia Guide to Online Style. Janice R. Walker and Totdd Taylor. Columbia University Press, © 2000.
"Citation Styles." Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources. Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. Bedford/St. Martin's, © 2000.

Indexes to Digital Books

LiNuM, Livres Numérisés Mathématiques. This interface under development searches the Gallica, Cornell, Göettingen, and Michigan collections. Some Gallica titles may not be accessible thru this interface.
DML Listing of Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs
Cornell's Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs. This interface under development searches the Cornell, Michigan, SUB Göttingen monograph collections.
Michigan's Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections. This interface under development searches the Cornell, Michigan, SUB Göttingen monograph collections.
AMS Books Online
Books Available Online, AMS list of lists of online math books.
EMIS Electronic Library of Mathematics
Online Books Page, list of online books cataloged in QA

Books

Springer Math/Stat ebooks, 2005 -- UW students, faculty, and staff may download, save or print Springer eBooks for personal research. Springer eBooks FAQ.
STATSnetBASE Statistics and probability ebooks
Safari Tech Books Online
netLibrary General ebook collection
Online Mathematics Textbooks
The Mathematica Book, 4th ed.
Numerical Recipes Books On-line
Online Books Page, database of free electronic books in all subjects.

Digital Tools

DiRT, Digital Research Tools Wiki.

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