Mathematics Web Sites of Note

These web sites contain information about history of math, data sources, general information, and more.  

General | E-texts | Preprints and E-prints | Associations | Data, Handbooks, More
| History and Special Topics

General

Exceptional MathReviews -- Lists reviews from MathSciNet that are especially witty, critical, or otherwise notewortthy. The site is maintained by an assistant math professor at Columbia.
  
Internet Mathematics Library -- A general site for searching math topics, maintained by Drexel University.

World Digital Mathematics Library -- A global project of the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC). It includes journal articles *and* e-books.

The Math Journal Price Survey is based on American Mathematical Society data. At the top of the chart is data for Annals of Mathematics, a high-quality but moderately priced publication, to use as comparison.

E-texts (Books)

Historical Math Monographs, Cornell University Library -- The Cornell Library selected mathematics books whose copyrights had expired and which were falling apart and needed saving. You can browse by author or title, or search. 

Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures -- These are the full text of 13 lectures on mathematics delivered at the University of Notre Dame between 1941 and 1990. They are online free from Project Euclid. (Please note that the search function doesn't seem to work too well.)

Open Library -- This is the demo site of a project from the Internet Archive (Brewster Kahle). It has the full text of books that are out of copyright as well as excerpts from in-copyright books, and a very nice "page-turning" capability. 
     I chose "advanced search," checked the "FT only" box, put "differential equations" in as a subject, and got 20 hits.

Journal Articles, Preprints, and E-prints

arXiv.org e-rpint server -- E-prints in math, physics, computer science, and nonlinear science. New submissions are usually added daily during Monday through Friday.

Digital Mathematics Registry -- The DMR is a site that gathers links to full-text papers and digital materials in math and related fields. The journal list will show which journals have papers listed in the DMR.

Directory of Mathematics Preprint and E-print Servers -- This AMS site's purpose is "to make available... current homepage URLs and email contacts of all mathematical preprint and e-print servers throughout the world. This directory will [help you to] find these servers to browse the articles posted on them [or] to post an article to the server itself."

Project Euclid -- Full-text journal articles from 50+ math and statistics journals.

 Associations and Organizations

American Mathematical Society (AMS)
 
Math Societies, Associations, and Organizations -- a huge alphabetical list of societies from all over the world, maintained by AMS

 Data Tables, Handbooks, Software, More 

Dictionary of Units of Measurement -- definitions of SI units, metric units, Roman numerals, symbols and abbreviations, and much more
 
 NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ("NIST" is National Institute of Standards and Technology)
 
 NIST Info about Math, Statistics, and Computational Science 

History and Special Topics 

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

The Erdos Number Project 
 
Hopf Topology Archive 
 
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive -- index of famous curves, time lines, biographies, many historical topics, and much more. "MacTutor" refers to software that allows interactive exploration of the curves and other mathematical functions.
 
The Mathematics Genealogy Project 
 
The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s 

Librarian for Math and Applied Math: 
Sue Vazakas, svazakas@jhu.edu, 410-516-4153

Last revised: January 15, 2008