GCSU Library Subject Guide
Mathematics


Reference Sources         Subject Headings        Articles        Web Sites        Citing Sources        Contact A Librarian


Reference Sources
The Reference Collection, located on the second floor of the GCSU Library, is often the best place to start you research.  Books in the Reference Collection can help you become more familiar with your topic and assist you with identifying keywords and important people.  Bibliographies can help you identify specific articles and books.

Guides to Research
  CRC Handbook of Mathematical Sciences /William H. Beyer (Reference QA47 .H324 1987) features "numerical tables of mathematical and statistical functions."  Covers constants and conversion factors, algebra, combinatorial analysis, geometry, trigonometry, logarithmic, exponential and hyperbolic functions, analytic geometry, calculus, differential equations, special functions, numerical methods, probability and statistics and astrodynamics.
  CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae (Reference QA47 .M315 1996) contains over 6000 entries covering statistics, geometry, special functions, probability, trigonometry, numbers and calculus.
  Handbook of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables (Reference QA47 .A34 1964)
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
  Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics/Christopher Clapham (Circulating Collection QA5 .C53 1996) is appropriate for the beginning mathematics student.  It contains entries on a wide variety of mathematical topics as well as entries on major mathematicians.
  Words of mathematics : an etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English (Reference QA5 .S375 1994) includes more than 1500 mathematical terms and defines their origins.
Biography
  A to Z of mathematicians (Reference QA28 .M395 2005) contains entries on 150 mathematicians who lived before 1900.
  Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present (Reference QA28 .N66 1998) contains entries on over 300 mathematicians.  More culturally and historically diverse than A to Z of Mathematicians above, this reference book provides further reading lists, and is indexed by subject as well as the mathematicians ethnicity/nationality, gender and specialization.



 Subject Headings & Call Number Ranges
Using the correct subject headings for your topic will help you get more relevant results when searching the Library Catalog.  Below is a concise list of subject headings for the field of Mathematics  For a more complete list, you can perform a Subject Heading search using the Exact Search feature in the Library Catalog.

        Subject Headings

    Mathematics
    Mathematics 1961-
    Mathematics Bibliography
    Mathematics Data Processing
    Mathematics Examinations, questions, etc.
    Mathematics History
    Mathematics Philosophy
    Mathematics Popular Works
    Mathematics Problems, exercises, etc.
    Mathematics Study and teaching
    Mathematics Tables

    Call Number Ranges

    QA1-939 Mathematics
    QA1-43 General
    QA47-59 Tables
    QA71-90 Instruments and machines
    QA75-76.95 Calculating machines
    QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
    QA76.75-76.765 Computer software
    QA101-(145) Elementary mathematics. Arithmetic
    QA150-272.5 Algebra
    QA273-280 Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
    QA299.6-433 AnalysisQA440-699 Geometry. Trigonometry. Topology
    QA801-939 Analytic mechanics

     

 Articles
    Databases
    Most databases index articles from journals, newspapers, and magazines.  Some databases offer full text articles, while others contain only citations.  Some databases are subject specific, while others are more general in coverage.  Some databases relevant to the field of Mathematics are:

      MathSciNet (provided by GCSU) is a searchable database that provides access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
      Current Contents GALILEO logois a multidisciplinary database that covers approximately 8,000 scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books in the sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities. It provides article citations, many with abstracts, from 1992 to the present.
      Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
      Research Library GALILEO Logois a multidisciplinary database that contains articles from academic journals and magazines in the humanities, the social sciences, and the general sciences.
      JSTOR (provided by GCSU) includes scholarly journals from the arts and sciences extending back to the 19th century.

    Journal Locator
    Search for specific journals or magazines.  The Journal Locator will tell you the location and availability of a journal or magazine: either in the GCSU Periodicals Collection or in a database.
 Web Sites


 Contact A Librarian
For further assistance, contact the Reference Desk in the GCSU Library or contact the GCSU Library liaison to the Mathematics Department: