Library: Mathematical Sciences: Learning at Bath

Find recommended reading

Library Lists
Find your recommended reading for each unit in the Library Lists system. A unit reading list will give you easy access to e-books, and location and availability information for print books. You can search by unit code or title. For example, enter 'MA1' to find all year 1 units.
Managing Exam Stress Library List
Our Managing Exam Stress Collection provides materials to help manage stress and anxiety as well as study skills tips to help you achieve success with your exams.

Mathematics journal collections and archives

SIAM This link opens in a new window
SIAM Locus - full text online for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics journals.

Compositio Mathematica journal archive (1935-1996)
Free access to the Compositio Mathematica archive from 1935 - 1997. The Library's subscription to the journal provides up to date and ongoing access to content from 1997, and you can access that via the Library catalogue

Submitting your thesis or dissertation

Taught postgraduate students

Deposit your dissertation online with the Library
You can submit your Masters (taught postgraduate) dissertations (MA, MSc, MBA, etc) in electronic format to the Library. Submission to the Library is optional.

Higher degree students including those completing a MPhil, PhD, DBA, EdD, EngD, DHealth, DClinPsy, MS or MD.

How to submit your thesis
Follow the link to find advice and procedures for higher degree students for submitting a print and online copy of your completed thesis to your department and the library.

Library updates

Library blog
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Past exam papers

Past exam papers
The Library provides you with access to Semester 1 and Semester 2 exam papers from the last 5 years, to help with revision. If you can't find the paper you are looking for it may be because:
• The unit code has changed
• It has been restricted by your Department
Please be aware that older papers might not be relevant to current course content.

Mathematics e-book and reference collections

AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics
AMS GSM are a series of books suitable as course books, self directed learning and background reading.
Springer e-book collection: Mathematics and Statistics
Search with the Springer e-book collection for mathematics and statistics (dating from 1929)
Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press covering the Arts, English Language Reference, Modern Languages, Politics and Social Sciences, and Science.

Develop your skills

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
An online skills platform offering an extensive library of over 21,000 high-quality video courses in business, technical, creative and personal development skills. Free access to all current staff/students is provided by the University of Bath Library. Trial access until 30 Nov 2025.
O'Reilly Learning This link opens in a new window
O'Reilly Learning is a collection of technical books from a number of publishers including Pearson and O'Reilly Media. The titles include many computing topics and programming and software guides. It also has a range of business and management titles. In addition to books, O'Reilly includes a large range of online training courses, on-demand learning materials and video resources.

Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
MASH helps all students at the University with mathematics and statistics problems.
Help with using LaTeX

The Library: for Mathematics students
Information skills tutorial
How to find information from books and journals to use in your coursework: Moodle resource for University of Bath students.
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.

Academic writing skills
Courses and one-to-one sessions for all students are provided by the Skills Centre.

Skills for Study This link opens in a new window
Description: Interactive tutorials with activities and tests covering: academic study skills, reading and note-making, critical thinking skills and referencing and understanding plagiarism.

Writing for Scientists
Library list of e-books with information on how to write in various science subjects, including Mathematical Sciences

Research Software Learning Online
A guide to research software online courses from O'Reilly Learning. Courses cover Excel, Git and GitHub, LaTEX, MATLAB, Python, R and RS Studio, SAS, SPSS, Stata and SQL.