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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.
• Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics Dodge, Yadolah. Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics
• Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2nd ed. Updated access to nearly 3,000 articles.
• Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
• MathWorld, free web version of Eric Weisstein's CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.  
• 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,free, collaborative encyclopedia.
• Encyklopaedie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen, 1st edition, 1898/1904-1904/35, and 2nd edition, 1939
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• 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.
• Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists, 2nd ed., 2002.
• A Dictionary of Scientists
• History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present : a selective annotated bibliography edited by Joseph W. Dauben and Albert C. Lewis. Accessible ONLY via Internet Explorer browser
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• 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

• Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics (Google Book link)
• 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

• The Mathematica Book, 4th ed.
• STATSnetBASE. STATSnetBASE is a collection of approximately 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC press.
• netLibrary, a general ebook collection.
  • Stephens, Larry J. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Beginning Statistics. Schaum's Outline Series. 1998.
  • Lipschutz, Seymour.; Schiller, John J. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Introduction to Probability and Statistics. 1998.
• Numerical Recipes Books On-line
• Online Books Page, database of free electronic books in all subjects.
• Online Mathematics Textbooks
• Safari Tech Books Online
• Epstein Birthday Schrift, May 1997. (Geometry and Topology Monographs, 1.)
• European Women in Mathematics, Proceedings of the 8th general meeting, 1997.
• International Congress of Mathematicians (1998 : Berlin, Germany)
• Proceedings of the Kirbyfest, June 1998. (Geometry and Topology Monographs, 2.)
• Towards Excellence: Leading a Mathematics Department in the 21st Century.

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