Mathematical Sciences Internet Resources

Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, is the librarian liaison to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

ACM Electronic Guide to Computing Literature (1980-present)  is a CD-ROM product that indexes U.S. and international journal articles and conference papers, books, doctoral theses, and technical reports. Ask for the disk at Science Library.

Organizations & Associations

• American Statistical Association : founded in 1839, promotes statistical practice, applications, and research.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): an international scientific and educational organization, founded in 1947, dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. With a world-wide membership of 80,000, ACM functions as a locus for computing professionals and students working in the various fields of Information Technology.
• American Mathematical Society (AMS): founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship. With 30,000 members, it promotes mathematical research, increases the awareness of the values of mathematics to society, and fosters excellence in mathematics education.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE): founded in 1884, has 320,000 technical and scientific professionals advancing the theory and practice of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and computer science. To realize these objectives, the IEEE sponsors technical conferences, symposia and local meetings worldwide: publishes nearly 25% of the world's technical papers in electrical, electronics and computer engineering.
• MAA Online: The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is the world's largest organization devoted to the interests of collegiate mathematics. The Association stimulates interest in mathematics by providing expository books and articles on contemporary mathematics and on recent developments at the frontiers of mathematical research, and by exchanging information about important events in the mathematical world.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): dedicated to enriching the profession through publications, conferences, activity groups, and programs since 1952.

Indexes & General Resources

• Biographies of Women Mathematicians, compiled and maintained by students in mathematics courses at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, provides information about women mathematicians, past and present, using an alphabetical or chronological index.
• Chance Database, located at Dartmouth, is designed to make students more informed, and critical, readers of current news that uses probability and statistics.
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science compiled by Alk-Christian Achilles, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
• FOLDOC, Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing edited by Denis Howe, is a searchable dictionary of 13,000 acronymns, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history.
• Links to Web Sites on the History of Mathematics, A large collection of links to sites related to the history of mathematics selected and annotated by June Barrow-Green.
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, developed at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, covers geometry, algebra (especially group theory), graph theory, number theory, and the history of mathematics.
• Math Archives, from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, provides a wide range of links to software, teaching materials, and topics in mathematics. The topics in the mathematics section is organized by major categories, e.g., algebra, applied mathematics, arithmetic, art and music, calculus, combinatorics, computer, discrete mathematics, Fourier analysis and wavelets, fractals, geometry, history of mathematics, linear and nonlinear programming, mathematics education, number theory, probability theory, statistics, and trigonometry.
• Math Forum, located at Drexel, is a math education community center on the Internet.
• Math2.org, created by David Manura, provides a wide range of material, from simple addition and multiplication tables to advanced Fourier Series and Transform theory, with everything in between as well -- algebraic identities; formulae for areas, volumes, or surface areas of geometric objects; trigonometric graphs and identities; a statistics and statistical distributions area; and tables of integrals.
• Mathematics WWW Virtual Library is Florida State University's Department of Mathematics extensive collection of Web resources.
• Mathematics Web Sites Around the World is Pennsylvania State University's Mathematics Department extensive collection of links to other mathematics and mathematics-related sites.
• Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections allows browsing through original works of great mathematicians from the University of Michigan's Digital Library Text Collection, and digitized collections from Cornell University and the University of Göttingen.
• Platonic Realms, located at the University of Colorado, is a collaborative effort of math graduate students and educators that contains more than 1,000 math links. PRIME (Platonic Realms' Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia) is an interactive resource built and kept up-to-date by users. A Quotes Collection has a comprehensive collection of mathematical quotation, browsable by author.
• StatLib, hosted by the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, provides a system of distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, ftp and WWW.
• Vassar Stats: Statistical Computation Web Site: covera all basic topics in an an introductory statistics course authored by Richard Lowry, emeritus professor of Psychology.
• Web Developer's Virtual Library, founded by scientific software engineer Alan Richmond, is a comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology for webmasters, web designers, Internet developers, and online publishers.
• W3 Schools is a comprehensive Web developer tutorial site.
  

Electronic journals

• ACM Digital Library provides the full text of Association of Computing Machinery journals and proceedings.
• American Mathematical Monthly (1997- ) offers summaries of the articles about mathematics and the profession. Also included in JSTOR.
• Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (1992- ) published quarterly, contains expository articles, book reviews, and research reports.
• College Mathematics Journal (1997- ) emphasizes the first two years of the college curriculum with a wealth of current, stimulating, and entertaining material for teachers and students.
• Conformal Geometry and Dynamics (1997- ) is a forum for mathematical work in related fields broadly described as conformal geometry and dynamics. These include complex dynamics -- and real dynamics using complex techniques -- Kleinian groups, hyperbolic geometry, Teichmuller theory, and quasiconformal mappings.
• Electronic Research Announcements (1995- ) is an American Mathematical Society electronic-only journal publishing high quality research announcements (up to about 10 journal pages) of significant advances in all branches of mathematics.
• Journal of Statistics Education (1993- ) is a refereed electronic journal on postsecondary teaching of statistics.
• Journal of the American Mathematical Society (1996- )published quarterly, contains research articles of the highest quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. Also included in JSTOR.
• JSTOR (available to those affliated with OWU) provides complete backfiles to core mathematics journals.
• Mathematics of Computation (1996- ) published quarterly, is devoted to research articles in computational mathematics. Areas covered include numerical analysis, with emphasis on the mathematical analysis and development of methods, computational number theory and algebra, and related fields. Also included in JSTOR.
• Notices of the American Mathematical Society (1995- ) mathematical symbols, graphics, and photos appear on-screen as they do in the printed version of the Notices using either Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript.
• Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (1996- ) published monthly, is devoted entirely to research in pure and applied mathematics, principally to the publication of original papers of moderate length. A section called "Shorter Notes" publishes very short papers of unusually elegant and polished character for which there is normally no other outlet. Also included in JSTOR.
• Representation Theory (1006- ) is a purely electronic journal with refereed papers devoted to research in representation theory.
• Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1996- ) published monthly since 1900, is devoted entirely to research in pure and applied mathematics and, in general, includes longer papers than those in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. Also included in JSTOR.

This resource guide prepared by Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, primarily using excerpts from CHOICE reviews.