Mathematics
Overview of the printed and electronic resources in mathematics and statistics.
Main content
The library holds many printed and electronic books, journals, theses, encylopedias and databases relevant for mathematicians. Use the blue search box above to search our literature (guidance here), and see below for direct links to article databases and reference works.
Library Services
As well as providing literature, we offer courses and are available for questions or one-to-one guidance for students/employees. One-to-one guidance can be particularly helpful when starting on a new assignment or research project. Please do not hesitate to contact us or book time with a subject librarian!
We can help with:
- Finding literature: How to get an overview of your topic and stay updated, exhaustive and precise literature search, which platforms and databases are relevant and how to use them
- Using literature: Keeping your literature organised, using reference management software, how to cite various sources
- Intellectual property rights: Publication, use of another's intellectual work
- Bibliometrics: Analyzing the literature by bibliometric methods
Research support: We offer courses and guidance along the whole research life cycle.
- Publishing and impact: Open Access (OA) publishing, publishing agreements & UiBs OA publication fund, Cristin (the national system for registration of research and documentation), BORA, publishing strategy and impact
- Research data: Open Access to research data, FAIR principles, data management, Data Management Plans (DMP), data deposition, general & domain-specific data repositories, finding and reusing datasets, citable code
- Open Science: The University of Bergen Policy for Open Science, funder requirements (NFR, Horizon2020/Horizon Europe)
- Visibility: researcher profile, publication statistics
Teaching support: You can book a tailored, short course for your students from us, or we can run help-desks related to specific assignments.
Find the right shelf
Print books physically available at the library are marked UBBRB. They are ordered by topic on the shelves using the Dewey Decimal Classification (the numerical code after "UBBRB").
For ebooks, check here how to access and use e-books, or ask at our desk.
For books which are already on loan, choose 'reserve', or browse for alternatives using the Virtual Shelf at the bottom of the page for your chosen book. For browsing our physical shelves, ask staff to help you find the shelves most relevant.
If you can't find an item at the University of Bergen Library, try searching in all Norwegian Academic Libraries via the dropdown menu in the search bar. Many items can be ordered, and sent to our library for you (free of charge). If you can't find the book you need anywhere in Oria, send us an email, or request via Oria (using "Order" in the main menu).
Books in mathematics are listed with numbers that start with 51. Books about the same topic are on the same shelf. Click the links below to search whole categories in Oria. When you find an interesting title in Oria, you can use the tab Virtual Browse to see books on the same shelf. Some of the most important sub classes are also listed below.
510 General mathematics
- 510.7 Matematics education/didactics
- 510.9 History of Mathematics
- 510.92 Biographies
511 General principles of mathematics
- 511.3 Mathematical logic (Symbolic logic)
- 511.5 Graph theory
- 511.6 Combinatorics
512 Algebra
- 512.02 Abstract Algebra
- 512.2 Groups and group theory
- 512.3 Fields
- 512.4 Rings
- 512.5 Linear algebra
- 512.6 Category theory, homological algebra, K-theory
- 512.7 Number theory
514 Topology
- 514.2 Algebraic topology
- 514.3 Topology of spaces
- 514.7 Analytic topology
515 Analysis
- 515.2 General aspects of analysis
- 515.3 Differential calculus and equations: 515.35 Differential equations (515.352 Ordinary | 515.353 Partial)
- 515.4 Integral calculus and equations
- 515.6 Other analytic methods: 515.62 Calculus of finite differences; 515.63 Vector, tensor and spinor analysis; 515.64 Calculus of variations
- 515.7 Functional analysis
- 515.9 Functions of complex variables
516 Geometry
- 516.3 Analytic geometries
- 516.35 Algebraic geometry
- 516.36 Differential- and integral geometry
518 Numerical analysis
Many books have chapters on numerical analysis related to the main theme of the book. If, for example, a book is mainly about differential equations, with perhaps a chapter about numerical solutions, it will be found under differential equations (515.35) - if it's primarily about numerical solution of differential equations it will be found under 518.63 (ODEs) or 518.64 (PDEs).
- 518.0285 Programs for numerical analysis (Matlab, Octave, etc) and programming (Numerical Recipes, GSL).
- 518.2 Specific methods, e.g. 518.25 finite elements, 518.282 Monte Carlo.
- 518.43 Numerical linear algebra
- 518.6 Numerical methods in analysis
519 Probabilities and applied mathematics
- 519.2 Probabilities
- 519.22 Stochastic analysis
- 519.23 Stochastic processes
- 519.24 Probability distributions
- 519.3 Game theory
- 519.5 Statistical matematics
- 519.52 Theory of sampling
- 519.53 Descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis, analysis of variance and covariance
- 519.6 Matematical optimization
- 519.7 Programming (in the sense of optimization)
Curriculum Material
Reading list material can most easily be accessed using the Digital reading lists in MyUiB for your specific courses. Whenever we can, we offer access to electronic versions of books, book chapters and journal articles. Make sure to connect via UiBs network! However, access in not available for all material. You will find printed books from the reading list in a separate Curriculum section, in the southern end of the library. These copies are not available for loan, but for most titles, we have more copies available. You will find these shelved according to the same code, in our main collection. Please get in touch if you should discover that we lack items from your reading list!
Students with difficulties reading due to visual impairment or reading disabilities can borrow accessible textbooks from NLB. The service is free for students attending university, university college and vocational college.
Scientific Publications/Databases
Scientific articles appear alongside books, reports etc. in Oria. By default, Oria lists only documents you have online or physical access to. Search in all "Norwegian academic libraries" to also include references outside of our immediate access. You can order copies of articles we do not have access to from other libraries via Oria - this service is free of charge.
Alternatively, you can search for scientific articles in a variety of general or domain-specific databases. Do not hesitate to book time with a subject librarian if you need guidance.
While many databases are free, some services are require institutional access. Browse the Database tab in Oria for Mathematics resources or follow the links below. If you are not on campus, please follow the instructions for access off campus.
General
- JSTOR-Mathematics
- MathSciNet
- Zentralblatt MATH
- MathNetBase (E-books by CRC)
- Wolfram: MathWorld & Functions
- Web of Science
Statistics
Education
- ERIC (general pedagogy/didactics)
Reference Management
The University Library offers courses and support for reference management tools such as EndNote (access software and guide here), Mendeley, and Zotero (free & open source) for use with MS Word/OpenOffice, LaTeX, or collaborative writing platforms such as Google Docs or Overleaf. Ask us or check for courses on the Library Homepage calendar and remember to sign up!
If you use LaTeX, bibliographies can be generated with BibTeX. You can read more about BibTeX and reference management in LaTeX here.
Useful resources
Students
- Søk og Skriv, a guide to literature search and writing for students
Researchers/PhDs
- PhD on Track- a guide to literature search, publishing, and open science
- Unsure about a journal's quality? See databases of quality OA journals here and tips on think-check-submit
A comprehensive list of mathematical terms in Bokmål, Nynorsk and English has been compiled by the Norwegian Mathematical Council
New titles in Mathematics
The digital library
General information about the Science Library
Kunnskapseplet (Popular Science Talks)
Accessibility
Students and employees at the university can access the library outside of our staffed opening hours. Unfortunately, not all areas in the library are equally accessible for wheelchair users. During staffed hours will we do our best to accomodate user needs. The areal has a handicap toilet.
Group rooms and reading areas
The library has individual study spaces and spaces for group work. Group rooms, pods, and reading seats in "zone 3" must be booked. The rest, both individual places, group tables, and armchairs, do not require booking.
These restrictions apply when booking:
- 2 active bookings
- Max. 4 hours for one booking
- Max. 10 days in advance
Syllabus
We have curriculum literature in the library, either printed or digital. We have a syllabus collection for use in the library only, but also loan copies for most titles.
General study support services
Search&Write is a guide to information searching and academic writing, designed for students
PhD on Track is a resource that deals with academic writing, publishing, and open science
Referencing software allows you to collect, cite, organize references
Research support, including data management and publishing services
