Other Holdings
- Videocassettes
- The Platonic Solids 17:35 minutes plus a video on
using the platonic solids materials 15:17 minutes.
Available to faculty and graduate students.
Consult: A. Weiss, email: weiss@mathstat.yorku.ca
- The Stella Octangula 4:32 mintutes plus a video on
using the stella octangula materials 9:31 mintutes.
Available to faculty and graduate students.
Consult: A. Weiss, email: weiss@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Videotaped lectures from the Fields Institute
Symposium on the Legacy of John Charles Fields.
Available to faculty and graduate students in the chair's office.
- Sir Michael Atiyah - Mathematics in the 20th century
- Panel Discussion
- Maxim Kontsevich - Limits of Complex Structures
- Alain Connes - Renormalization and the Riemann-Hilbert problem
- Richard Borcherds - Automorphic Forms
- Vaughan Jones - Planar Algebras: between dimensions two, three and infinity
- Tom Archibald - J.C. Fields: the research ideal in mathematics and the organization of science
- Michael Monastyrsky - Trends in modern mathematics and the Fields institute
- John Milnor - Complex Systems: The Role of Mathematics
- Timothy Gowers - Combinatorics in the Service of Mathematics
- Alan Baker - Diophantine Analysis and Transcendence Theory: the way forward
- Stephen Smale - The Mathematics of Theories of Learning and Intelligence
- Monographs
- Bateman Manuscript Project, Califorina Institute of Technology,
Tables of Integral Transfroms. Based, in part,on notes left by Harry
Bateman.
This book is in Steacie Reference QA 351 B22 but is non-circulating.
Available to faculty and graduate students for 1 week loan.
Consult: Martin Muldoon: N515, -33911, Muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Bateman Manuscript Project, California Institute of Technology,
Higher Transcendental Functions.
This book is in Steacie Reference QA 351 B2 but is Non-Circulating.
Available to faculty and graduate students for 1 week loan.
Consult: Martin Muldoon: N515, -33911, muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Gelbaum, Bernard R, Counterexamples in Analysis
This book is not in Steacie or Scott libraries.
Available to faculty and graduate students for 1 week loan.
Consult: Martin Muldoon: N515, -33911, muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca
- May, Kenneth O., Bibliography and Research Manual of the History
of Mathematics
This book is in Steacie Reference Z 6651 M39 but is non-circulating.
Available to faculty and graduate students for 1 week loan.
Consult: Martin Muldoon: N515, -33911, muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics
Iwanami Sugaku Jiten. English, 1st ed.
Steacie has the 2nd ed, (QA 5 I8313 1987) but is non-circulating.
Available for loan faculty and graduate students for 1 week loan.
Consult: Martin Muldoon: N515, -33911, muldoon@mathstat.yorku.ca.
- Cours de mathematiques 3, concernant l'Algebre et l'application
de cette Science a l'Arithmetique et a la Geometrie.
par M. Bezout, Paris 1798.
Available to faculty.
Consult: T. Salisbury, email: salt@yorku.ca
- Proceedings of the 2nd Berkeley Symposium on mathematical
Statistics and Probability
This book is not available in the Steacie or Scott libraries.
Available to faculty and graduate students.
Consult: T. Salisbury, email: salt@yorku.ca
- Proceedings of the 4th Berkeley Symposium on mathematical
Statistics and Probability, volume III - Probability
This book is not available in the Steacie or Scott libraries.
Available to faculty and graduate students.
Consult: T. Salisbury, email: salt@yorku.ca
- Proceedings of the 6th Berkeley symposium on Mathematical
Statistics and Probability, volumes II and III - Probability
These books are not available in the Steacie or Scott libraries.
Available to faculty and graduate students.
Consult: T. Salisbury, email: salt@yorku.ca
- Geometric Items
- Geometric Models
Available to faculty and graduate student
Consult: A. Weiss, email: weiss@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Polydron (Geometric Manipulatives)
Classroom kit of plastic pieces for use in building polyhedra,
plane tilings etc.
Available to faculty and graduate students for 1 week.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Lenart Plastic Sphere (and smaller spheres)
Clear Plastic sphere, with great circle drawer and three
overhead spherical transparencies, plus six smaller
spheres, with great-circle rulers for investigating
spherical concepts projections etc. (Draw on them with
watersoluable overhead pens.)
They come with torus supports-which can olso be used for
explorations.
Available to faculty and graduate students for several weeks.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Zometool (Precision Plastic sticks and connectors.)
Designed for the regular polyhedra, and related objects
(e.g. projected hypercubes etc..) Somewhat delicate models.
colour coded for some nice models. Expensive to replace
($600 for the kit.)
Available to faculty for 1 week.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Miscellaneous Geometry Models
Come and see what there is and what can be constructed!
Available to faculty, graduate students, and some undergraduates.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
- Other
- Tiling Books, Software, etc.
Symetry colouring book, Mac software (reptiles,
tesselmania) Books on Escher's designs, Escher's designs
on regular Polyhedra etc.
Have been used for symmetry presentations from graduate
geometry courses to grade 3 classes. Includes recipies
for making shapes which tile the plane. Also 'algorithm'
for deciding which symmetry pattern a given design has.
Available to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates for 1-3 weeks.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
- String Hyperboloid of one sheet (Model of Surface)
Built for use in High Schools for using reflections as a
construction tool. (With reflections you CAN take cube root
... -and do everything you did with a ruler and compass as
well.)
NOTE: Education Faculty has two boxes of these.
Available to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates for 1 week.
Consult: W. Whiteley, email: whileley@mathstat.yorku.ca
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