Math Library News

From Ruth's desk

I've had several questions in July that involved locating math dictionaries or bilingual dictionaries, so I've beefed up the listing of dictionaries on the math library web site. If you'd like me to add other favorite links, let me know.

I had another question asking how someone could donate a book to the library in their honor - honest, I'm not making this up! Conveniently enough we do have an Honor with books program as well as several other giving programs. I do maintain a list of ideas of expensive items we would love to buy IF we had the money, so don't hesitate to send me those suggestions also.

Ruth Lewis

Other options for off-campus access

Proxy Options for Off-Campus Access details some other options when you don't use the proxy-enabled links from the library web site or the Proxy Server Login directly.

Current Index to Statistics now available online

Current Index to Statistics  Indexes publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. More info.
NOTE: This database does NOT have links to the Get it! service for full-text; you'll have to open another window, to Full Text Electronic Journals Holdings, and search for the journal title there to see if online full-text is available, OR, search Current Index to Statistics from within Find it!, which does link you to Get it!

Library toolbar now available for download

Quick links to many library resources and several useful "right click" options are available from our new LibX toolbar. More information and download are available at http://library.wustl.edu/research/toolbar/. We welcome your comments and suggestions for improvement!

Get it! menus are changing

Get it! menus are changing but services continue unchanged. More info. If you have bookmarked Citation Linker, please change your links because we have a new Citation Linker page.

Real algebraic and analytic geometry preprint server

Real algebraic and analytic geometry preprint server - Recent research results in real algebraic and analytic geometry (RAAG) and related areas, such as complexity theory and real computation, Nash functions, semi-algebraic geometry, o-minimal structures and its variants, model theory of ordered structures, Hardy fields and trans-series fields, ordered algebraic structures and rings of continuous functions, quadratic form theory related to RAAG, real algebra, positivity and sums of squares, noncommutative real algebra, real algebraic geometry, real analytic and subanalytic geometry, topology of real algebraic varieties. The site is provided by Marcus Tressl, Universitat Regensberg, Germany. Description from Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology [added to Math fulltext sources]

Catalog search changes

Changes in the Library Catalog -- Please review for information about search and display changes in the catalog.

Making MathSciNet work harder for you

Making MathSciNet Work Harder for You [pdf], by Linda Yamamoto from the Mathematical & Computer Sciences Library at Stanford University. I found this poster on searching using institutional codes and Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) inspirational. I hope you find it interesting also.

In MathSciNet, WU Dept. of Mathematics Institutional code is 1-WASN. You can browse or search the MSC by clicking on "other tools" (top right corner) and then the Search MSC tab.

April 15th marks the 300th anniversary of Leonhard Euler's birth

Who was he? "Only one of the top four mathematicians of all time."
Wikipedia entry
Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783), bio at ScienceWorld
A Math Great Gets His Due, NPR story
Euler archive, at Dartmouth