FE133/MA151 The World of Numbers: From Euclid to the Information Age
Metadata/Systems Librarian
- Jeremy Nelson
- Tutt Library 203
- (719) 389-6895
- Email me
Reference works
When starting research on a topic, an overview from an encyclopedia or other reference work can be a good place to get background information, find keywords for future searching, or a bibliography of books and articles to look for in the library.
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Print only, in the Tutt Reference section.
- Oxford User' Guide To Mathematics
- Print only, in the Tutt Reference section.
- Scientists, Mathematicians, And Inventors : Lives And Legacies : An Encyclopedia Of People Who Changed The World
- Print only, in the Tutt Reference section.
- Notable Women In Mathematics : A Biographical Dictionary
- Print only, in the Tutt Reference section.
- Notable Mathematicians : From Ancient Times To The Present
- Print only, in the Tutt Reference section.
Searching by keywords and subjects
Books
Start with TIGER to find books here at Colorado College then try Prospector if we don’t have what you need or if it is already checked out to find books across Colorado.
For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat .
Browsing
Books about mathematics are assigned call numbers that begin with:
- Q General Science
- QA Mathematics
Articles and Online Resources
There are many places to look for articles, depending on the subject of your research. Below are some ideas on where to begin. Please note that sometimes you will find a citation for an article without the database containing the electronic full text of the article. Then you should look for the black, white, and gold “Tutt Link” logo. Learn how to use Tutt Link to find full text.
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- Annual Reviews
- Coverage: 1990's - current
- Online access to 20 Annual Reviews series covering biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Please note: we subscribe to a subset of the Annual Reviews, and may not have access to the earliest volume for each title.
- General Science Abstracts
- Coverage: 1984 - current
- Covers such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, mathematics, medicine and health, and much more.
- History Of Science, Technology And Medicine
- An international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine, reflecting the influence of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations.
- MathSciNet
- Coverage: early 1800s - current
- Reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Originally based on Mathematical Reviews (MR).
- ScienceDirect
- Coverage: varies
- Full-text articles online from Elsevier and Academic Press journals. Summary information about articles from all other Elsevier titles and some other publishers. Coverage includes all science areas and many social sciences and humanities areas.
- Web Of Knowledge
- Coverage: 1900 - current
- Citation-based searching in all disciplines. Includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Web of Knowledge differs from Web of Science by including other databases such as Medline.
- Web Of Science
- Coverage: 1900 - current
- Citation-based searching in all disciplines. Includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Web of Science differs from Web of Knowledge by focusing on these three indexes.
Wolfram MathWorld A free resource from Wolfram Research on a wide variety of mathematical concepts.
When you have the full citation
What is this?
Citations differ in appearance and information depending on what type of resource they refer to. The following examples are citations for a book, a journal article, and a book chapter, respectively.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de. The ethics and selected letters. Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., 1982.
- Daskalakis, Constantinos, Paul W. Goldberg, and Christos H. Papadimitriou. “The Complexity Of Computing A Nash Equilibrium.” SIAM Journal on Computing 39.1 (2009): 195-259. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.
- Robathan, Dorothy M. “Libraries of the Italian Renaissance.” In The Medieval Library. Edited by James Westfall Thompson. 1939. Reprint, New York, 1957. Pages 509-588.
Finding books and book chapters
Once you have established that what you want is a book, or a part of a book, simply look for it in TIGER under the title of the book (not the title of the article, or chapter). That’s usually the part in italics.
Finding articles
Finding articles from their citations uses a different library service. On the library home page, inside the “Find Articles” box, you will find a line that says “Have a complete citation in hand? Find Journals." Follow that link and enter the title of the journal (not the article).
Pay careful attention to the dates on that screen, and see if the article you want falls inside the coverage dates.
Questions or problems? Ask a librarian or contact me at Jeremy Nelson, Meta-data & Systems Librarian, x6895, Tutt Library 203, jeremy.nelson@coloradocollege.edu).