Ramsey Library at UNC Asheville: Mathematics: Reference & Data

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Wolfram Alpha Search

Wolfram Alpha
Search the computational search engine for data in a variety of fields.

Online Biographical Sources

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
From Anges Scott College, this site is designed to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics.
The British Society for the History of Mathematics
The aims of the British Society for the History of Mathematics are to promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all levels of mathematics education
The MacTutor History of Mathematics
Provides access to an integrated collection of more than 1000 biographies and historical articles of a mathematical nature, with interactive maps and the famous curve applet.
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

Printed Biographical Sources

Dictionary of scientific biography
Contains biographical information of various mathematicians in alphabetical order.
Concise dictionary of scientific biography
This reference source is an alphabetical reference source for mathematicians and other scientist. Also available online.

Other Resources

Mathematica
Mathematica is a software program for computations. Students may check out these software discs for one day and install the program on their computers. Discs are available for MAC and PCs. Mathematica is on Course Reserves under the instructor and course name as "Mathematica".

Statistical Resources

Also see our Statistics Lib guide

Mathematics: Reference & Data