Mathematics Research Guide
Databases
Links to databases indexing magazine, journal and newspaper articles
Library Catalogs
Books, videos and other audiovisuals
Reference Works
Find backgound information, illustrations and data
Videorecording Sets
Course support. See link at start of Mathematics Audio/Visual materials list
Internet Science & Mathematics Sites
Major science gateways
- Scirus
Comprehensive search engine for science and mathematics-specific topics. Results cite Science Web sites and provide abstracts from Medline, Science Direct, U.S. Patent office documents and more.
http://www.scirus.com
- Science.gov
The gateway to government science information. Provides access to over 47 million pages of government information from 30 databases and 1700 websites, many part of the "deep web" that is inaccesible to search engines.
http://www.science.gov
Internet Mathematics Sites
General Links
- Formulas, Techniques and Methods in Mathematics: Finding the People Behind the Numbers
Links to web information about famous mathematicians with explanations of their contributions.
http://www.peoplefinders.com/article-famous-people-throughout-history-mathematicians.aspx
- Interact Math
Tutorial exercises to accompany Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall textbooks. Choose your text (or one in the math field you are studying). Install plug-in player if at home --preinstalled on COD ACC computer labs, and work through exercises on topics desired.
http://www.interactmath.com/
- Internet Resources for the Mathematics Student
Links to pretests, tutorials, and other helpful resources for precalculus, calculus, finite math, statistics, and other college-level courses.
http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats/resource/onWeb/
- Math Archives
Fine gateway to websites for mathematical topics, teaching resourcesand links specifically for undergraduates and college mathematics departments.
http://archives.math.utk.edu/
- Math Forum
A comprehensive for math students and teachers, with a large number links to useful websites organized by grade level (college included) and topic.
http://mathforum.org/
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Math Reference Tables
Useful tables ranging from addition/multiplication to Fourier series. Helpful links to other math websites.
http://www.math2.org/
- MathTV.com
Learn how to solve problems in algebra, calculus, trigonometry and basic math by watching short videos by students and teachers.
http://www.mathtv.com/
- Mathematical Atlas: a Gateway to Modern Mathematics
David Rusin of Northern Illinois University has organized this guide to the various divisions of math, exploring linkages between fields, with explanatory essays, bibliographies and links to useful websites.
http://www.math-atlas.org/welcome.html
- Mathematical Quotations
From Mark Woodard of Furman University, a quotations database searchable by name or topic or click for random quote.
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html - Mathworld
Mathematics encyclopedia explaining hundreds of mathematical terms, sometimes with animations to make the description more clear.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: Mathematics and Statistics
Over 800 annotated and reviewed (star system and comments) sites for reference, simulations, animations, and more for teaching and learning mathematics and statistics.
http://www.merlot.org
- Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics
Dr. Eric Schecter of Vanderbilt University explains errors in college-level algebra, notation, and calculus that he has seen all too frequently.
http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
- Professor Freedman's Math Help
Especially for the community college adult math student, Professor Ellen Freenman offers help with math anxiety, identifying learning style, and basic math and algebra.
http://www.mathpower.com/
- Virtual Library: Mathematics
Extensive but unannotated links to mathematics websites.
http://www.math.fsu.edu/Virtual/index.php
- Wolfram Functions Site
From Wolfram Research, a compendium of over 87,000 formulas and 10,000 visualizations of functions.
http://functions.wolfram.com/
- Women in Mathematics
Educational issues, biographies, organizations, and weblinks pertaining to women in mathematics from the Canadian Mathematical Society.
http://www.cms.math.ca/Women/ - Yahoo's Index of Mathematics Links
Search for information by mathematics subject categories or by keyword.
http://dir.yahoo.com/science/mathematics/
Fractals and Chaos
History of Mathematics
- Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
From Math Forum, a guide to some of the great problems in mathematics.
http://mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html
- History of Mathematics
David E. Joyce of Clark University provides a chronology, maps, extensive bibliographies and links to websites on the history of mathematics by region and by subject area.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html
- Links to Web Sites on the History of Mathematics
Links to websites for the history of math, including links to biography sites, museums, exhibits, and student presentations, from the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/resources.html
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Extensive collection of biographies of mathematicians with essays on mathematics through history or in different cultures.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
- Women in Mathematics
Educational issues, biographies, organizations, and weblinks pertaining to women in mathematics from the Canadian Mathematical Society.
http://www.cms.math.ca/Women/
Statistics Sources
Citing sources: MLA and APA formats
Worksheets
