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	SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICS TOPICS

Here are several search tools for locating informative material in all areas of mathematics. Each is reasonably comprehensive in scope (some taking slightly narrower views of what constitutes mathematics) but with increasing depth of coverage; select the ones near the top if your search phrase is fairly general (e.g. "abstract algebra") and the ones near the bottom if your phrase is specific or advanced (e.g. "integral cohomology quaternion group"). [Size of each searched database wildly guesstimated.]

Quick orientation: search contents of---
[  41K]		Layman's Guide to the Subject Areas of Mathematics
		(70 topics -- scan with your browser)
[ 350K]		Mathematics Subject Classification
		(American Mathematical Society; 4819 classifications)
[1600K]		Index pages at this site
		(116 disciplinary, 42 navigation pages)
[   8M]		Online mathematics dictionary.
		(Wolfram Inc.; 10,523 index words)
[  17M]		All files at this site
		(2,665 "Selected topics" files, 158 index/navigation pages.)
Mathematics on the Internet: search contents of---
[  20M]		Preprint Server
		(Los Alamos arXiv; 10,000 papers, searchable headers)
		(Fermivista)
[ 300M]		Newsgroups and mailing lists
		(Math Forum, Drexel; 43 discussion groups since 1991)
		(DejaNews; 500,000 mathematics(?) articles since 1995)
[ 500M]		Web pages (HTML files)
		(MathSearch at Sydney; 206,617 files)
Titles and reviews of published mathematics literature: search records of---
[ 100M]		Catalogue Of Scientific Publications
		(50,000 math citations 1800-1900, usu. categorized)[subscribers only]
[ 600M]		Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
		(200,000 citations 1868-1943, many with current classification)
[3000M]		Zentralblatt für Mathematik
		(2M citations since 1931, 900K reviews since 1985) [limited demo searches]
[5000M]		Mathematical Reviews
		(2M reviews since 1940) [subscribers only]
Source material: search entire contents of---
[-----]		Selected recent journal articles
		(Various publishers' search engines)[Paid subscription may be required.]
[ 100G]		All math books, articles, software, microforms, videos, and web sites
		(Free, full-text, context-based expert-system natural-language search. About 10^7 items)

If you wish to search many resources at once you may wish to visit the EULER Project, now in alpha release.

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