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Online Handbooks, Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

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Mathematics Librarian

Jennifer Groff
303 Cooper Library
jgroff@clemson.edu (864) 656-4782
AIM: CULibJen

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More Mathematics Resources


Handbooks:

MATHnetBASE  

Electronic access to 266 mathematics titles.  Can search within all available titles, or browse specific titles individually.
(limited to 1 simultaneous user)  


Wolfram MathWorld  

“The web’s most extensive mathematical resource”, created by Eric W. Weisstein and provided as a free service by Wolfram Research


Computational Methods in Biophysics, Biomaterials, Biotechnology and Medical Systems   Engineering, Characterization and Evaluation Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences and Mathematical Biology in General

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive   Includes biographies of mathematicians indexed alphabetically by name and chronologically.  Mathematicians are also browsable by birthplace and by medals, prizes, and other honors won. This archive also includes information on the history of various topics in mathematics, as well as a list of more than 60 curves with their history and properties.  Created by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson of the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland

 

Encyclopedias:

Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry   Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Applications of Mathematics, Group Theory and Generalizations and Non-associative Rings and Algebras

Encyclopedia of Operations Research & Management Science   Economics/Management Science, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control, Optimization, Operations Research/Decision Theory and Production/Logistics

Encyclopedia of Optimization   Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Optimization and Algorithms



Dictionaries:

Oxford Dictionaries of Physical Sciences and Mathematics   Includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, A Dictionary of Scientists, and A Dictionary of Statistics. Can search within an individual book or across the subject area.

The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics   Includes all branches of pure and applied mathematics


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