Mathematics

Mathematics Resources

Your search for information on Mathematics and Mathematicians can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. The general call number for books on all aspects of Math is QA. More specific call numbers for your topics may be found by searching the catalog.

Try the following Library of Congress Subject Headings but remember that this list is by no means conclusive. There are many more subject headings for math in the catalog

Mathematics	Algebra	Arithmetic
Numerals	Geometry	Business mathematics
Math anxiety	Functions	Fractions
Mathematical analysis	Mathematics � study and teaching	Mathematics � vocational guidance
Mathematicians	Hint: You can look for books about a particular Mathematician by doing a Subject Search. Type the person�s last name, first name in the search box.

Selected Reference Books

Listed below are reference books that may be useful in your research and study.

Biographical Resources
American Men and Women of Science REFERENCE Q141 .A474 2003 E-Book 2007	Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians REFERENCE QA28 .B534 1991
Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science REFERENCE Q141 .B5285 2000	Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians REFERENCE QA28 .B544 1999
Dictionary of Scientific Biography REFERENCE Q141 .D5	Encyclopedia of World Biography REFERENCE CT103. E56 1998
Notable Mathematicians REFERENCE QA28 .N66 1998	Notable Twentieth Century Scientists REFERENCE Q141 .N73 1995
Women of Mathematics REFERENCE QA28 .W66 1987
Other Reference Resources
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .W45 1999	CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae REFERENCE QA47 .M315
Dictionary of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .D4988 1999	Encyclopedia of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .M3713 2005
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .I8313 1993	Facts on File Dictionary of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .F35 1999
Mathematical, Scientific, and Engineering formulas, Tables, Functions, Graphs, Transforms REFERENCE QA40 .M357 1994	Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers REFERENCE QA36 .G86 1997
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Mathematics REFERENCE QA5 .M425 1997	Merriam-Webster�s Guide to Everyday Math REFERENCE QA46 .B868 1998
Facts on File Geometry Handbook REFERENCE QA445.2 .G67 2003	Facts on File Calculus Handbook REFERENCE QA303.2 .M36 2003

Online Journal and Reference Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

EBSCOhost

Facts.com

Gale Databases

NewsBank

Project Muse

Proquest Newspapers

See Databases & E-Resources for a complete description of Cerritos College Library online resources.

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resources Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1975.

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Library of Congress Classification Scheme for Mathematics

QA1 - QA939

Mathematics

QA - QA43

   General

QA47 - QA59

   Tables

QA71 - QA90

   Instruments and machines

QA75 - QA76.95

      Calculating machines

QA75.5 - QA76.95

      Electronic computers. Computer science

QA76.75 - QA76.765

      Computer software

QA101 - QA145

   Elementary mathematics. Arithmatic

QA150 - QA272.5

   Algebra

QA273 - QA280

   Probabilities. Mathematical statistics

QA299.6 - QA433

   Analysis

QA440 - QA699

   Geometry. Trigonometry. Topology

QA801 - QA939

   Analytic mechanics

QA440 - QA699

   Geometry

QA801 - QA939

   Analytic mechanics

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