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CO 480 Research: Home

About this guide

This guide is designed to help you find credible and peer reviewed sources for your research paper. If you would like more help, please do not hesitate to contact your librarian! 

Course reserves

Finding Inspiration

  • Using the advanced search interface
    • Change the field to 'subject' and type 'mathematician*' into the search box
    • The asterisk (*) will find mathematician or mathematicians
    • It may also be helpful to change the results to only show books.
  • A note about the 'search for' options:
    • You can request books that are not at Waterloo, they may take a few days to get here

The catalogue's advanced search interface

Broad searches, like the one above, are not always the best for finding underrepresented voices. Instead a search like this might be more helpful:

advanced search in the catalogue. black OR indigenous OR women OR "African American"  OR woman  OR "African Canadian" are searched in the title field and mathematician* is searched in the any field.

 

 

There are a number of websites you can browse to help you select a mathematician, including:

Please note that these are not scholarly sources of information. However, they can provide an indication of how much research relating to an individual is out there. You can also mine their references for material published in books, journals, and conferences.

Encyclopedias can provide useful overviews on mathematicians and mathematical concepts. Please note that these are not considered peer reviewed research sources. However, they can be used as reliable starting points for selecting a mathematician and finding related references.  

Your librarian

AI tools for research

Example tools for finding sources: