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MathSciNet | Reviews, with abstracts, to the world's literature in mathematics and related areas. View Full Description |
Applied mathematics, in partnership with computational science, is essential in solving many real-world problems. Our mission is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology through our publications, research, and community.
- Historical Math Monographs (Cornell University Library)
- A collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. The original documents were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue; so they were digitally scanned. The database is fully searchable and includes two other historical math collections.
- Intute Mathematics Gateway
- Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications.
- Contains peer reviewed articles and is published on the World Wide Web by the Mathematical Association of America
- Math Forum
- Produced by Drexel Univeristy this site is designed to enrich and support mathematics education.
- Mathworld
- A comprehensive and interactive encyclopedia dedicated to mathematics and intended for students, faculty, and researchers.
- PRIME - the Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia
- "is a public resource maintained by and for the entire community of mathematics students, educators and researchers."
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Scirus: For Scientific Information Only.
- Scirus is a science-specific search engine which examines over 167 million sicence related Web pages.
- Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
- A searchable database providing identification to integer sequences. Check out the section entitled "New users see."
- Topology Atlas
- Publishes information related to topology. The website attempts to be a comprehensive on-line resource for mathematicians interested in topology.
- Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
- "The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources."
Searching Google
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link: |
Use to see what sites link to a specific website | link:www.library.wlu.ca |
define: |
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LaTeX and BibTeX
- a freely available typesetting system that produces professional looking publications
- useful for writing documents that contain mathematical formulas or equations
- create documents with LaTeX using an editor or just using a plain text editor
- prepare your text using special commands to produce effects such as heading styles, bold or italic emphasis, mathematical symbols etc.
- files are formatted as .tex files (do not use accents or spaces in the file name)
- the source code generates printable PDFs that comply with editorial standards
- LaTeX Project
- BibTeX Project
- An updated version of LaTeX is called MikTeX
- LaTeX and Friends - M.R.C. van Dongen ISBN: 3642238165 Publication Year: 2012 ebook
- Digital Typography using LaTeX - Syropoulos, A; Tsolomitis, A; Sofroniou, N ISBN: 0387952179 Publication Year: 2003 ebook