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Mathematics

A guide to selected resources for Mathematics

Books

The library collects books to support your studies. More recently we are purchasing mainly ebooks. This page presents three main categories of books: New Books, Reference Books and Textbooks.
 

You can find books in the library by using uKwazi. The video below will guide you on how to search for books and articles on uKwazi

 

Online books can be accessed by clicking on the relevant link on uKwazi. Mathematics books are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System and and Astronomy and Physics books are mainly located on Level 14 on the following subjects and DDC numbers:

 

Mathematics  510
General topics  511
Algebra & number theory                      512
Arithmetic 513
Topology 514
Analysis  515
Geometry 516
Numerical analysis  518
Probabilities & applied mathematics              519

 

 

Springer eBooks

Springer eBook content includes an array of subjects such as architecture and design, biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, Environmental Sciences, life sciences, mathematics, physics, public health and more.

ScienceDirect eBooks

Offering comprehensive coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines, monograph and series books are now fully integrated with journals, book series, handbooks and reference works on SciVerse ScienceDirect.

MPSInsight :: Dashboard

IOPscience, the home of scientific content from IOP Publishing and our partners.

OpenStax Math Textbooks is a platform for Open textbooks for introductory statistics, calculus, algebra, pre-algebra, and trigonometry. Open textbooks by Rice University. Faculty can download supplementary materials.

Open Textbook Library hosts wide selection of textbooks on mathematics' topics, includes some peer-reviewed content.

New Look for An Old Tradition

OpenTextBookStore was created by educators frustrated with the time involved in finding adoptable open textbooks, with the hope to make open textbook adoption easier for other faculty...This is just a listing site for publicly available open textbooks, maintained by a teacher. Print copies are made available through third party print-on-demand companies. Many of the courses have course packages available through MyOpenMath.com, which provides free online homework for several open math textbooks

Textbook Affordability Project is an Open access textbooks are openly-licensed digital textbooks that are offered for free online. Traditional textbooks use cumbersome copyright license restrictions, while open access textbooks allow anyone to read, copy, distribute, or modify the content at no cost. Even students who have not been assigned an open access textbook can benefit from using them alongside traditional textbooks as supplemental study material.

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