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Mathematics

In addition to the literature available at the departmental libraries, you will find an extensive collection of mathematical literature at the Göttingen State and University Library. We also offer access to other subject-specific information services.

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Library Catalogues

GöDiscovery is based on search engine technology and gives you access to books, journals, databases and a wide range of articles – both from the holdings of Göttingen State and University Library and the institute libraries, as well as from external sources.

The traditional library catalogue, Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK), only lists locally available holdings.

GöDiscovery

Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK)

Books

General

In addition to monographs, conference proceedings and textbooks, books also include research reports, dissertations, festschrifts, dictionaries and lexical works, both printed and electronic. The historical mathematical collection is of particular interest. It is one of the most extensive collections of this type in Germany.

Locations

Printed books can be found in the institute libraries and at the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen). At the SUB Göttingen, these are located both in the Central Library (some freely accessible in the reading room, most of them in closed stacks) and in the Historical Building (collection up to 1900).

Book not available?

If you cannot find the title you need, you can order it via interlibrary loan or you give us a purchase suggestion.

Journals

Electronic Journals Library (EZB)

You can find references to both printed and electronically available journal holdings via GöDiscovery and in the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK). The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) offers access to full-text articles from licensed online journals, sorted by subject. A traffic light system indicates whether you have access. Licensed titles can usually also be accessed from outside the university campus via VPN (external access).

Databases

Databases are listed by subject in the Database Information System (DBIS). Licensed fee-based databases can also be found in GöDiscovery and in the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK). References to free databases are only available in DBIS.

Mathematical reference organs

  • zbMATH Open
    Mathematics reviewing service, emerged from the "Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete" founded in 1931 by the Göttingen mathematician Otto Neugebauer , accessible free of charge since January 2021. YouTube tutorials.
  • MathSciNet
    Mathematics reviewing service, emerged from the "Mathematical Reviews" founded in 1940 by the Göttingen mathematician Otto Neugebauer, who emigrated to the USA in 1933, access subject to a fee, licensed by the SUB Göttingen.

zbMATH Open

MathSciNet

Sources in the history of mathematics

The central archive of the bequests of mathematicians was established in 1992 on the basis of an agreement between the German Mathematical Society and the SUB Göttingen. This archive was build on the archive holdings already existing in Göttingen (for example, the estates of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Bernhard Riemann) and build on the mathematicians archive established by Felix Klein.

The individual items of the holdings available at the SUB Göttingen can be viewed in the reading room of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Prints of the SUB Göttingen. The staff of the department will be happy to answer any questions and provide information.

→ Information on researching and using bequests and autographs

The collection contains all known letters from and to Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), to a large extent with digital copies of prints or manuscripts as well as transcriptions.

→ https://gauss.adw-goe.de/

As part of several DFG projects, the SUB Göttingen's entire historical holdings of mathematical literature up to and including 1900 have been retrospectively digitised and made accessible online.

→ Göttingen Digitisation Centre: Mathematica

Among the digitised bequests of the SUB Göttingen are numerous documents from the fields of mathematics and the natural sciences.

→ Göttingen Digitisation Centre: Bequests

The Göttingen Mathematical Institute has an extensive collection of historical mathematical models, which you can visit at any time during the Institute's opening hours.

→ Model collection

Further sources and information

Collections at the MFO

 

Research data

Miscellanea

Contact

PD Dr. Katharina Habermann

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1

37073 Göttingen