tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55649292023-10-24T10:04:07.383-04:00MathematicsInteresting and new things in mathematics for the Drexel Community.Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1142342671638032352006-03-14T08:16:00.000-05:002006-03-14T08:24:31.650-05:00A Day to Celebrate! If you check today's date 3/14 you will notice that it resembles a famous number: pi or 3.14159... So today is Pi Approximation Day. For more information on this historic number go to:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article350972.ece Happy Pi (approximation) Day!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com503tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1141671734866654582006-03-06T14:01:00.000-05:002006-03-06T14:02:14.973-05:0060 Seconds With..(drum roll)...Me!The very nice folks at Institute of Physics sent me a survey last summer as part of their "getting to know librarians" series. I completed the survey and here it is!Enjoy...http://journals.iop.org/sixty/46Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1139490830853740082006-02-09T08:12:00.000-05:002006-02-09T08:13:50.863-05:00What's Happening to Peer Review???Two articles (at least) have recently appeared discussing the peer review process. One makes a case for the whole process being broken. The other offers a new twist to it."Is Peer Review Broken?" by Alison McCookThe Scientist, vol 20 (2), pg 26.http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/26/1/Submissions are up, reviewers are overtaxed, and authors are lodging Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1138890134912203312006-02-02T09:20:00.000-05:002006-02-02T09:22:52.570-05:00Science CommonsScience Commons devotes its legal and technical expertise to help scientific researchers make the best possible uses of new communication technologies for purposes of scholarly communication.What is it? Science Commons is a project of the non profit corporation Creative Commons. Science Commons was launched in 2005 with the generous support of the HighQ Foundation and Creative Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1134075080258256622005-12-08T15:44:00.000-05:002005-12-08T15:51:20.270-05:00Something New from Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Web Site!EEVL Xtra is a brand new, free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. EEVL Xtra cross-searches (hence the ‘Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1130502342702725702005-10-28T08:15:00.000-04:002005-10-28T08:25:42.713-04:00Mathematics in Films and TVThis site provides a list of cinema films, and some television series, which contain any kind of reference to mathematics or real mathematicians. Each entry describes the context of the reference to mathematics and rates the treatment of the subject within the film. Many entries contain links to web sites on related topics. Users of the web site are invited to submit Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1129305653322111052005-10-14T11:58:00.000-04:002005-10-14T12:00:53.330-04:00New from the GAOHIGHER EDUCATIONScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programsand Related TrendsOfficials from 13 federal civilian agencies reported spending about $2.8billion in fiscal year 2004 for 207 education programs designed to increasethe numbers of students and graduates or improve educational programs inSTEM fields, but agencies reported little about their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1120828305948200922005-07-08T09:07:00.000-04:002005-07-08T09:11:45.956-04:00MathWorld Introduces New Interactive Features for Teachers and StudentsBy Eric W. WeissteinJuly 6, 2005--Wolfram Research and the MathWorld team are pleased to announce the unveiling of a number of exciting new features on the MathWorld website. These enhancements are the result of several years of effort by the MathWorld team (consisting of MathWorld author and creator Eric Weisstein, math on Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1119636060191612592005-06-24T13:46:00.000-04:002005-06-24T14:01:00.196-04:00Mathematical Notation: Past and FutureToday, anywhere in the world, an expression such as x^3 + 2003 can be understood by anyone with mathematical training. In centuries past, other methods have been used. This notebook explores some of these older notations, including Roman Numerals, Greek Numerals, the Diophantus polynomial form, the François Viète polynomial form, the Harriot polynomial form, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1118751635650392602005-06-14T08:14:00.000-04:002005-06-14T08:20:35.656-04:00Great News!We have heard you requests and have figured out a way to list new books added to the collection. We will be posting the list every month from the link "New Resources" on the Libraries' main page. For the month of May, 47 books in mathematics were added to the collection. Too many to list here. Check out the entire list at: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/booklist.htmlClick Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1116855365824219872005-05-23T09:34:00.000-04:002005-05-23T09:45:46.266-04:00What is Your Role in the Scholarly Communication Cycle--What Should it Be?Thursday, May 19, we had our 4th and final speaker of the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Speaker Series for 2005. Power point links to all four presentations can be found at: http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.htmlIn today's Wall Street Journal a timely article on the cost of scholarly communications Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1116339961821810992005-05-17T10:24:00.000-04:002005-05-17T10:26:01.826-04:00Journal Title Searching now via Library CatalogThe libraries have now implemented "one-stop shopping" for journal titles in the Library Catalog. Records for electronic journals have been added to the catalog, allowing use of the full range of catalog search options for both print and online journals. "Journal Search" links throughout the library web site will now point to a search page that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1114712817940872942005-04-28T14:25:00.000-04:002005-04-28T14:26:57.943-04:00Benchmarking Drexel University ResearchThe Drexel Science and Math Librarian (Peggy Dominy) and the IST/Education Librarian (Tim Siftar) presented the poster entitled “Benchmarking the Research Impact of Drexel University through Analysis of Citations in the Scholarly Literature 1994-2004.”The research examined the citations per article published by Drexel faculty in six disciplines over a periodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1114093211811412132005-04-21T10:18:00.000-04:002005-04-21T10:20:11.813-04:00Scholarly Communication: Does Open Access Increase Authors’ Citation Rates?Want your articles cited more? Is Open Access the answer?Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology at NCSU Libraries and author of “Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Research Impact?” College & Research Libraries 65:5 (2004), will address these questions and more when she speaks on Thursday, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1113857094081417092005-04-18T16:22:00.000-04:002005-04-18T16:44:54.083-04:00Databases Covering Mathematics Literature Available at Drexel UniversityOver the next few days I will be highlighting databases available through the Drexel University Libraries that pertain to mathematics.MathSciNetMathSciNet is the electronic equivalent to Mathematical Reviews. The database encompasses the entire publication range of Mathematical Reviews from 1940 onward. It contains the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1110836591434644352005-03-14T16:39:00.000-05:002005-03-14T16:43:11.436-05:00From NPR (Go here to listen to the interview)Where Science Meets ArtDonald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer ScienceInterviewed by David KestenbaumMarch 14, 2005 · Donald Knuth is legendary in the computer science world for writing a series of must-have reference books called The Art of Computer Programming. Part cookbook, part textbook, part encyclopedia, these books are also considered by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1109685655681740912005-03-01T08:38:00.000-05:002005-03-01T09:00:55.683-05:00TWO NEW JOURNALS DEBUT ON PROJECT EUCLIDThe complete backfile for the Communications in Mathematical Physics (1965 - 1996), comprising 637 issues and 4804 articles, is now available on an Open Access basis.The complete backfile for the Pacific Journal of Mathematics (1951 - 1996) is also available on an Open Access basis. The backfile corpus includes 410 issues and 7803 articles covering volumes Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1109273441491349672005-02-24T14:29:00.000-05:002005-02-24T14:30:41.493-05:00Our Scholarly Communication Speaker Series has started again!Our first speaker will be Thomas Krichel. He will be speaking at March 3, Hagerty Library, 33rd and Market, 3pm, in the Stern Conference Room on the 3rd Floor.Below is some information about the speaker:Thomas Krichel was born in 1965 in Völklingen,Germany. He studied economics and social sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5564929.post-1057844523660975442003-07-10T09:42:00.000-04:002003-07-10T09:42:03.566-04:00In Pursuit of Simplicity:
the manuscripts of
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Like most of us, Edsger always believed it a scientist's duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful observations, andAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0