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Mathematics

Library Search

Library Search is a great starting place for your research. It's the main search field in the middle of the Library homepage. You can use this to search The Claremont Colleges Library collections, other campus collections and libraries worldwide.

Use Library Search to find print books, eBooks, articles, newspaper resources, tangible media (CDs/DVDs), streaming media, objects available in tech lending, special collections holdings and more!

If an item shows as "Held by Other Libraries" you may request the item through resource sharing by clicking on the "Get This Item" button. 

 

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Browsing Books in the Library

Books are a core resource in mathematics, and you will likely want to both search the Library website and browse the shelves of the math collection to find books for your research. 

Using Library Search you can search by keyword, author, title, subject, etc.

Browsing the collection is a great way to find valuable books that slip through a typical library catalog search.  In academic libraries in the United States, books are grouped by subject, and the call numbers correspond to those subjects.  Using the Library of Congress (LC) subclassifications list below, you can identify an area of the collection to explore. 

QA1-145: Mathematics (General). Elementary mathematics. Arithmetic

  • QA8: Mathematics - Philosophy
  • QA9-10: Mathematical logic
  • QA11-20: Mathematics - Study and teaching
  • QA21-30: Mathematics - History
  • QA75.5-76.95: Computer science
  • QA95: Mathematical recreations
  • QA101-145: Elementary mathematics. Arithmetic

QA150-272.5 Algebra

  • QA162: Abstract algebra
  • QA164-167.2: Combinatorics (including Graph theory)
  • QA169: Homological algebra
  • QA174-183: Group theory
  • QA184-205: Linear and multilinear algebras. Matrices
  • QA211-218: Theory of equations
  • QA221-224: Approximation theory
  • QA241-247.5: Number theory
  • QA267-268.5: Machine theory. Abstract machines. Abstract automata

QA273-299.4 Probabilities. Mathematical statistics. Numerical analysis

  • QA273: Probabilities
  • QA274: Stochastic processes
  • QA276-280: Mathematical statistics
  • QA297-299.4: Numerical analysis

QA299.6-433 Analysis

  • QA303-316: Calculus
  • QA319-329: Functional analysis
  • QA331-355: Theory of functions
  • QA370-380: Differential equations
  • QA401-425: Analytical methods used in the solution of physical problems (including Mathematical optimization)

QA440-699 Geometry. Trigonometry. Topology

  • QA451-469: Elementary geometry
  • QA471: Projective geometry
  • QA501-521: Descriptive geometry
  • QA531-538: Trigonometry
  • QA551-563: Analytic geometry
  • QA564-609: Algebraic geometry
  • QA611-614 Topology (including Manifolds and cell complexes)
  • QA615-639: Infinitesimal geometry
  • QA641-670: Differential geometry

QA801-939 Analytic mechanics

  • QA821-835: Statics
  • QA841-842: Kinematics
  • QA843-871: Dynamics
  • QA901-930: Fluid mechanics
  • QA931-939: Elasticity. Plasticity