Subject guide – Mathematics

Here are some valuable tips on how and where you can search for literature in mathematics.

Reference database:

MathSciNet is a database in mathematics, statistics and computer science, published by the American Mathematical Society. Partly in full text. It corresponds to the printed publications Mathematical reviews (1940-), Current index to statistics (1975-) and Current mathematical publications (1940-). You can search freely, on author (e.g. Ibragimov, N), journal or Mathematics Subject Classification.

Read directly on screen:

Ebrary:

is a large library with e-books to read directly on screen. For example try searching for “mathematics” or “statistics” and you will find some highly interesting book titles directly.

ELIN @Blekinge

Here most of the library’s e-journals are collected in one common search interface. N.B. if you want to search for two words or more you must write them in separate fields: mathematics and statistics (more than 750 articles) or the search query will be taken for a phrase: “mathematics statistics” (about 25 records). If you create an account in ELIN @Blekinge you can save articles you want to use and also save search queries for alerts. When new articles are published in your topic you will get an e-mail from Elin@alerting system.

Encyclopaedias:

In MacGraw-Hill’s AccessScience there is a special section for mathematics. Apart from articles on the subject with many tables, figures and formulae there are also biographies of well-known mathematicians and laureates.

News coverage:

Math in the media – AMS publishes this news survey monthly.