Mathematics and statistics: dictionaries and encyclopedias
Use encyclopedias:
- for summaries
- for lists of further reading
- when starting a project
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There are two key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Useful reference works for mathematics: selected titles
Concise Oxford dictionary of mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510.3-CLA
Also available online on Oxford Reference Online
Concise handbook of mathematics and physics
2nd Floor Reference--530-ALE
CRC concise encyclopedia of mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510.3-WEI
CRC handbook of mathematical sciences
2nd Floor Reference--510.83-CRC
CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae
2nd Floor Reference--510.212-CRC
Encyclopedia of biostatistics
2nd Floor Reference--610.15195-ENC
Encyclopaedia of mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510.3-ENC
Encyclopedia of statistical sciences
2nd Floor Reference--519.503-ENC
Facts on file dictionary of mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510.3-FAC
International encyclopedia of statistics
2nd Floor Reference--519.503-INT
Oxford dictionary of statistics
2nd Floor Reference--519.503-UPT
Penguin dictionary of mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510.3-PEN
Also available online via Credo Reference
Princeton companion to mathematics
2nd Floor Reference--510-PRI