Internet Research
Math for Liberal Arts
Penny Morris


PCC library http://www.polk.cc.fl.us/IT/Library/index.html
     
Books:
LINCCSearch - Online Book Catalog
Searches include variations of: Subject, Title, Author and All Fields which means the catalog searches the entire book record. Is the book available online? Probably not!


Periodicals:
  • From the Library Home Page choose Remote Access Databases 
  • Borrower ID = Social Security Number - Type in 9 digit number with NO dashes!
  • Choose database to search:
Academic Search Elite - type in keywords and click on search
 
Biography Resource Center - Choose Custom Search option.
 
Type in the Occupation field: Mathematician
 


Internet Seach Engines: Keyword searches by Relevance
 
Google: http://www.google.com
Type keywords
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com
Type keywords
HotBot: http://www.hotbot.com
Type keywords
About.com: http://about.com (The Human Internet)


Images:

Altavista: http://www.altavista.com

Clip art within the word processing program

Clip Art on the Internet:

Clip Art Connection: http://www.clipartconnection.com/

Barry’s Clip Art Server: http://www.barrysclipart.com/

Teacher files: http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

Community Learning Network: http://www.cln.org/themes/clip_art.html

Iband clip art: http://www.iband.com/clipart.html


Internet Math Sites:

Open Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Mathematicians
 
Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
 
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html
 
Chronological List of Mathematicians
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html
 
Mathematicians in Richard Westfall’s archive:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/External/Westfall_list.html
 
Math-Net
http://www.math-net.de/
     
last update 2/2001