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Collection Policy Outline

General Purpose:

To serve undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes and to maintain up-to-date support for active research groups by acquiring and/or providing on-line access to current related texts and periodicals.

Languages:

Emphasis is on English and Western European languages.

Chronological Limits:

Mainly post 1900.

Type of Material Collected:

• Books: monographs; bibliographies; conference proceedings; etc.
• Serial publications: series; periodicals
• Indexing and abstracting services
  Note: any of the above may be in print, microform, or electronic format

Fields of Research:

• algebra (algebraic geometry, number theory, Lie algebras & representations, invariant theory, cryptography)
• analysis (operator theory, free probability, dynamical systems)
• applied mathematics (communication, information & control theory, dynamical systems)
• differential geometry
• discrete mathematics (designs, graphs, codes & cryptography)
• mathematical biology
• mathematical physics
• probability & statistics
• topology

Subjects and Collecting Levels:

(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)

Areas to be collected at level B:

• algebraic geometry
• algebraic topology
• category theory, homological algebra
• control theory
• differential geometry
• dynamical systems & fractals
• Fourier & wavelet analysis
• graph theory & combinatorics
• homological algebra, category theory
• information theory
• mathematical biology
• number theory
• operator theory
• optimal control
• probability theory
• rings & algebras
• statistics
• stochastic processes
• topological groups & Lie-theory
• topology & geometry of manifolds

Areas to be collected at level C:

• calculus of variations
• convexity
• fields & polynomials
• functions of real variables
• functions of one & several complex variables
• game theory
• geometry
• group theory & its generalizations
• linear & multilinear algebra; matrix theory
• logic & foundations
• measure & integration
• numerical analysis
• ordered algebraic structures
• special functions

Areas to be collected at level D:

• biography
• history of mathematics
• mathematical education
• operations research
• set theory

Areas to be collected at level E:

• mathematical recreations
• philosophy of mathematics

Policy last revised: December 2007