Useful links related to library, books, online journals

collected by Christian Elsholtz

Databases

  • Mathscinet (The database based on the Mathematical Reviews) "Facts and Figures: 62971 items added in 2004; 1799 journals covered; links to 451285 original articles; 10843 active reviewers; 415166 authors indexed." Run by the AMS.
    Bielefeld Bonn Providence
  • Zentralblatt MATH, advanced search Note: as nonsubscribers we have restricted access (3 items per search, only) Link
  • Das Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik covers very old items, 1868-1942. Will be integrated in Zentralblatt MATH.
  • Web of Science, including Science Citation Index (the last years only) (which articles cite a given article? Note that MathScinet also has similar features.) Direct Link:
  • Journal ranking, some old lists (the usual caution is recommended). ranking.

    Mathematical Societies

    IMU EMS LMS AMS MAA DMV
    Mathnet Mathnet departments
    links to math departments in UK and Ireland
    map with links to math faculties in Germany
    Florida State Uni: Links to Math. Departments worldwide
    "Most frequently used Maths links"

    search engines

    Google
    AltaVista
    yahoo.com
    Teoma

    Journals


    List of many journals (all subjects) (Regensburg)
    list of maths journals: Penn State Uni
    The UMCP Math Department Electronic Journal Page
    Springer Journals, Birkh"auser, Kluwer Journals)
    RHUL has free access to Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Science Direct, Elsevier, Academic Press)
    Front End of the largest Maths/Physics Preprint Server arXiv,
    CS/Maths/Physics arXiv
    (Citeseer) very good in discrete maths, and Computer science
    JSTOR (many digitized old journals (for example Am math Monthly), and also copies of recent journals, such as Annals of Mathematics.
    Emani some digitized (old) journals
    Numdam some back volumes of French digitized journals.

    Virtual libraries with many further links

    Math-Guide Göttingen
    Florida State University Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
    Mathematics Web Sites around the world (Penn State Uni)
    Most frequently linked pages in the MathSearch index
    Mathematical Atlas
    Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
    The Mathematics Archives
    Mathematical Links (from the Number Theory Web)
    Science Math Archiv/

    Publishers, book stores etc.

    publishers, libraries, book sellers (international)
    Amazon UK Amazon Deutschland Amazon.com
    central antiquarian bookshops directory
    Bibliofind

    special disciplines:

  • Number theory
    Number Theory Web (Main site) /Cambridge
    Number Theory Math (many links)
  • Cryptography.
    eprint server plenty of preprints.
    Many cryptography resources can be found on Prof Anshel's webapge
  • Combinatorics/Graphtheory etc.
    Combinatorics People
    Combinatorics Net
    The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and The World Combinatorics Exchange
    dmanet Koeln
    Graph theory white pages
    Paderborner lecture notes archive (mainly Computer science)
  • Probability
    Probability Web
  • Geometrie
    Eppsteins junkyard

    Other Stuff

    History of Maths (St. Andrews)

    Other Stuff

    Wikipedia
    Mathworld (Wolfram, Eric Weisstein) many good definitions etc
    Latex, short guide, AMS, pdf file

    Three links on how to write Maths follow.
    Hints on Style, by David Goss
    Mathematical Writing by D.Knuth, T.Larrabee, P.Roberts
    Writing a Math Phase Two Paper by S.L. Kleiman

    Thesis advisors, Genealogy
    Pathological examples in analysis
    leo's Deutsch-Englisch/Englisch-Deutsch-dictionary
    (raw translator)
    altavista's babel fish (raw translator)

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    This is a collection of links that were useful at the time I added them to the list. Each webpage however can contain links that are linked to pages with eventually less useful pages. Moreover webpages can have changed their contents after I included them. The use of this webpage implies that any legal risks are entirely on the user's side. Should web pages be outdated or misleading, please let me know. Christian Elsholtz.