History of Mathematics

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Selected Journals & Magazines
• Citation and Style Guides
• Web Resources

• Background Information
• Subject Headings
• Call Numbers

Article Indexes & Databases

• General Science Index

Additional Useful Indexes

• Academic Search Premier
• Applied Science & Technology Index
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Humanities Index
• JSTOR

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Selected Online Reference Tools

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (via Oxford Reference Online)

Selected Journals & Magazines

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• Historia Mathematica - S
• Mathematical Intelligencer - R,O
• Mathematics Magazine - R,O
• Philosophia Mathematica - O

Reference Books

• Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
  REF QA 21 C645 1994 (2 v.) - S

• Circulating Books
• Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
  QA 22 A13 1998 - S
• Famous Problems and Their Mathematicians
  QA 43 J56 1999 - S
• Great Moments in Mathematics before 1650
  QA 21 E797 1980 - S
Great Moments in Mathematics after 1650
QA 21 E796 1983 - S
• How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years
  QA 22 R86 2007 - S
The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
QA 612 O83 2007 - S
• The Mathematical Century: the 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
  QA 26 O3513 2004 - R
• Two Millennia of Mathematics: from Archimedes to Gauss
  QA 99 P48 2000 - S

Subject Headings

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

• Mathematics--History
• Algebra--History
• Calculus--History
• Games of chance (Mathematics)--History
• Geometry--History
• Mathematicians--Biography
• Probabilities--History

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

QA 21: History of Mathematics
QA 151: History of Algebra
QA 303: History of Calculus
QA 443.5: History of Geometry

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History of Mathematics

• Basic Reading List in the History of Mathematics (Mathematical Association of America)
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• BSHM Links to Web Sites on the History of Mathematics
• Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs
• DML: Digital Mathematics Library
• Euclid's Elements
• Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
• History of Mathematics Websites (Baldwin-Wallace College)
• History of Mathematics (Texas A&M Univ.)
• History of Statistics & Probability (Univ. Minn. Morris)

• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (St. Andrews)
  
• Math Forum (Drexel Univ.) 
• Mathematics Pronunciation Guide
  
• Mathematical Quotations
• A Short History of Probability and Statistics
• Social and Historical Aspects of Mathematics
• Springer Online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
  
• WDML: World Digital Mathematics Library
  
  

Mathematical Associations

• American Mathematical Society
• Canadian Mathematical Society
• European Mathematical Society
• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Mathematical Association of America
• Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
  

• Kwantlen Library's Turabian/Chicago Guide
• CBE Citation Style (via Ohio State Univ. Libraries)

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards