Internet Research

Math for Liberal Arts

Penny Morris

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/