Mathematics
Wednesday 9 February 2026
- Dana Roth on "Using the Mathematics Literature", edited by Kristine K Fowler - :: Dana Roth sent the following comments about the new book, Using the Mathematics Literature, edited by Kristine K. Fowler:As a 'chemistry' librarian, I am obviously not qualified to give a complete review of 'Using the Mathematics Literature', edited by... (10:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 8 February 2026
- Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics - :: Catherine Lavallée-Welch posted information on the new reference book by Martha Tucker and Nancy Anderson. The book is called Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics:This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college... (15:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 19 November 2025
- EEVL Announces New Subject Specific Ejournal Search Engines - :: Four new search engines, indexing freely available e-journals published in computing science, engineering, mathematics, and all three subjects together, are now available from EEVL, the "Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing." The four engines are:Computing: searches the content... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 May 2025
- Commentary: The Crisis In Scholary Communication, by George Porter - The crisis in scholarly communications is now well into its third decade by many accounts. I was discussing journal cancellations with a faculty member when we touched on Henry Barschal's seminal analysis of commercially and society published journal prices. ">Stanford... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 April 2025
- Compositio Mathematica moves to new publisher; cuts price 1/3 - :: Gerard van der Geer provides wonderful background on the history of Compositio Mathematica (CM) in an Opinion piece in the May 2004 issue of Notices of the AMS.van der Geer, Gerard. We can make a change. Notices of the... (15:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 December 2025
- MathSciNet Enhancements, Largest Known Prime Number Discovered - :: AMS has made some enhancements to MathSciNet, including multilingual interfaces. :: Speaking of numbers, in case you missed it, the largest known prime number was recently discovered by a 26-year old chemical engineering student. The number is 220,996,011-1, and... (15:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 December 2025
- Max Planck Research Awards 2003 Presented - :: "As part of the efforts to promote international cooperation in science, the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented the Max Planck Research Award for 2003 on November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 12 scientists... (11:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)