Research and Course Guides: Mathematics: Reference/Handbooks

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Oxford Reference Online: Mathematics and Computer Science
Includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5 ed.), A Dictionary of Statistics (3 ed.), and A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units

Safari Books Online (now O’Reilly for Higher Education) This link opens in a new window
35,000+ online books in science and technology from publishers such as O’Reilly and Microsoft Press. Patrons must create an account using their CU email address as the username.

MATHnetBASE
Online library of top-tier Chapman & Hall/CRC references, handbooks, pocketbooks, and primers

Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
Books from CRC/Taylor and Francis. Includes MATHnetBASE. Click on Mathematics & Statistics to browse hundreds of books in this subject area.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Reference works in a variety of scientific disciplines, including chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, and earth sciences

Wolfram MathWorld
the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the World's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
More than 500 books with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Includes biographies of mathematicians indexed alphabetically by name and chronologically. Mathematicians are also browsable by birthplace and by medals, prizes, and other honors won. This archive also includes information on the history of various topics in mathematics, as well as a list of more than 60 curves with their history and properties. Created by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson of the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland