Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Mathematics Abstracts


(c) European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe & Springer-Verlag
ISSN 0044-4235, 0938-3174 (CD-ROM)

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Period 1931 - present

All volumes and Current Contents of New Publications


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Zentralblatt für Mathematik / Mathematics Abstracts

The present edition contains the information of those documents the reviews of which were printed in the volumes of Zentralblatt für Mathematik (1931 - present) and in addition the bibliographic information from those journals, serials, books, and proceedings that are currently under documentation.

MATH provides a comprehensive coverage of the international mathematical research published mainly in the years 1931 through present. It contains articles from about 2,000 journals and serials, book of all publishers, available proceedings of all conferences, and other research papers appearing in any language.

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Accession

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                        779.14002
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                       779.*
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BI - Basic Index

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The following fields are included in the Basic Index:

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AU - Author(s), Editors, Author References

Author names have been implemented in a form common to all STN databases, i.e. last name, first name, middle name. First and middle names can or cannot be abbreviated. When searching for an author's name, it is recommended to use only the first initial. You will get all forms of the first names, because the system adds automatically a truncation symbol. Thus, the following forms of implementation are possible: Examples:
  Friedrich Wilhelm Mahle    as    Mahle, F.
                                   Mahle, F. W.
                                   Mahle, Friedrich
                                   Mahle, Friedrich W.
                                   Mahle, Friedrich Wilhelm
  and as an Editor (e.g.)          Mahle, Friedrich W. (ed.)
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                                   Mahle, F
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                                   Mahle, F*
Names containing a preposition (von, van), article (le), combination of article and preposition (du, vander), relationships or attributes (Fitz, Mac, Jun., III) have the format common to their country of origin. It is therefore recommended to search for names with the supplements placed in front of the name and after the name.
     Document                            Database Record
     
     Peter von der Muehl         as      Muehl, Peter von der
     Fritz von Heyden (DE)       as      Heyden, Fritz von
     Fritz Von Heyden (US)       as      Von Heyden, Fritz
     A. De L'Aigle               as      L'Aigle, A de
     C. M. Di Bari               as      Di Bari, C.M.
     Michel Del Pedro            as      Del Pedro, Michel
     L. C. MacLean               as      MacLean, L.C.
     John Fitz Gerald            as      Fitz Gerald, John
     A. Miller jun.              as      Miller, A.jun.
The publisher is also given in the AU field, and is listed with the supplement (ed.).
     Edited by H. Waadeland      as     Waadeland, H.(ed.)
     Editor Anita K. Jones       as     Jones, Anita K.(ed.)
Names in kyrillic letters have been transcribed according to the ISO standard. In some cases this transliteration will differ from that one on the translated document or in the western journal. In that case we include the different form of spelling as an author reference displayed in braces in the author field.

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TI - Title

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LA - Language

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SO - Source

This field contains a great part of the bibliographic information and information about meetings.

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All data are parsed into single words and can be searched as text.

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  Journal volume        Source contains the expression : ANN INST FOURIER 45
  Books of a publisher  Source contains the expression : SPRINGER VERLAG 
  Document of an ISBN   Source contains the expression : ISBN 3 540 53342 7

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PY - Publication Year

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DT - Document type

By means of document type it is possible to separate the main types of publication: Journal article, book, conference article, etc.

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CC - Classification Code and Text

All Documents in CompactMATH are indexed by codes from the

Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) 1991

which was prepared jointly by the editorial offices of Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik/Mathematics Abstracts.

A list of codes and the corresponding text is available.

The corresponding text is included in the Basic Index.

It is also possible to search for the main fields (higher levels) of the classification if you use the first two digits or the first two digits followed by a character in combination with the truncation symbol.

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      35J10   searches all papers to  "Schroedinger operator"
      35J*    searches all papers to  "elliptic equations"
      35*     searches all papers to  "partial differential equations"

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UT - English Keywords

In all cases where the classification is not specific enough there are added English keywords for a detailed description of the topics (starting 1970). Since we index all literature with English keywords, it is possible to search only in English for the selection of non-English papers and reviews.

The display field UT is only searchable in the Basic Index.

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AB - Review / Abstracts

The description of a document by a review should The reviews are compiled by about 5000 reviewers from all over the world who cover the whole mathematics and all the occuring languages. If the result of a check of the summary of a document by the editors of Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik is that it is informative and of good quality, then it may be used for the printed version and the databases as well.

The preferred language for the reviews is English, but reviews in French and German will also be accepted.

The author of a review is mentioned at the end of it, as long as it is not compiled from the summary, from the text, or so from one of the editors of Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik.

Does a paper remain without a review, this indicates in general that it rather crosses the borderlines of the scope of our printed product. However, to make it as complete as we can, we include those documents in MATH Database. Also those papers which are under documentation and whose bibliographic data are given, are without a review.

The review text is inverted in the Basic Index (BI).

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RV - Reviewer

There are more than 5,000 scientists from all over the world who provide Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik with about 50,000 reviews per year. They cover all areas of mathematics and its applications and all languages in which mathematical research papers are usually written. The name of the reviewer and his home town are searchable.

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CI - Citations

The Reviews of MATH Database contain citations to relevant papers for different reasons. These references are provided with the MATH Database accession number (Zbl.-number).

By a mouse click on this accession number you can display directly the cited record.

Moreover there is a link on the accession number of each displayed document which provides you with all reviews citing the displayed one.

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Stopwords

Some frequently used words without intrinsic meaning in a mathematical subject search (called stopwords) have been skiped in preparation of the indexes.

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Truncation

The (right) truncation symbol * is used to retrieve various forms of your search terms. In the author search the truncation is used automatically.

Left truncation is not available.

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