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School of Mathematical Sciences1. The schoolThe Faculty of Science is made up of six schools and several faculty centres, some of which are cross-faculty, offering a diverse range of disciplines in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Ten departments from other faculties, primarily the Faculty of Medicine, contribute to science teaching at all levels. There are approximately 3600 students in the Faculty of Science, including over 304 postgraduates, and an academic staff of 295 The faculty conducts undergraduate and postgraduate studies on the Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses in Australia and at Monash Malaysia. The schools within the faculty are: Applied Sciences and Engineering; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Geosciences; Mathematical Sciences; and Physics. The School of Applied Sciences and Engineering operates on the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses and offers studies in applied biology, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, and resource and environmental management. Amendment history The School of Mathematical Sciences offers a wide range of mathematics and statistics subjects in courses offered by the Faculty of Science, as well as some mathematical methods subjects targeted at students in the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technology. The Department has some 35 academic staff and about 50 postgraduate students and a total teaching load of 604 EFTSU. The School of Applied Sciences offers mathematics and statistics units at the Gippsland campus. The Faculty of Science’s Key Centre for Statistical Science offers courses leading to a masters degree in statistical science. Research interests in the school include astrophysics, solar and planetary physics, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, dynamical meteorology, climate dynamics, radiation and remote sensing, physical oceanography, nonlinear dynamics, curve motion, general relativity, geophysics, biomathematics, optimisation, control theory, computer algebra, history of mathematics, logic, algebra, group theory, semigroup theory, functional analysis, number theory, differential geometry, nonlinear partial differential equations, geometric analysis, applied probability, branching processes, statistical inference, medical statistics, industrial statistics, and statistical computing. The School of Mathematics and Statistics offers a statistical consulting service to students in the Faculties of Medicine, Science, Engineering and Information Technology who have a research component of greater than 50% in their degree. The school plays an important role in the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology. The Centre, based on the Clayton campus, is a principal university centre in Australia for research and graduate training in meteorological sciences. More information about:
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationMaterial purchased for the School of Mathematics and Statistics is located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton Campus. Relevant material purchased for the School of Physics & Materials Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering is also located in the Hargrave Andrew Library or the Caulfield Library. Material purchased for the School of Applied Sciences to support its mathematics teaching is located at the Gippsland campus. Material in the area of mathematics and statistics is also purchased by the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics (Faculty of Business and Economics), and is located in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. The Department of Business Systems (Faculty of Information Technology) purchases significant amounts of materials relevant to the Department of Mathematics and Business Statistics, and this is located predominantly in the Hargrave-Andrew Library, with a small collection at the Berwick campus. There is also some older material in the Caulfield Library. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired, although older material is also available in French and German. c. Classification usedThe library’s monograph collection relevant to the School of Mathematics and Statistics is classified using the Monash/M.O.S. mathematics classification, a variant of the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematics Subject Classification scheme. The serials collection is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. All material in the areas of mathematics and statistics located other than on the Clayton campus is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. d. FormatsNo format is excluded, although in practice the majority of the collection is monographs or serials, both print and electronic. There is also a collection of CD-ROMs e. Size of the collectionEstimated number of monograph volumes purchased per annum: approximately 200+ Number of print serial titles received : The library subscribes to approximately 70 titles on behalf of the School and these are located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals, and CD-ROM databases that are only accessible within a particular Branch library. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Science is spent on these resources. These include: Electronic Databases
Fulltext journal collections
Electronic Books
Subject gateways
70% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Science is spent on serials, and 6.5% on electronic resources. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the school cover in general all areas of the classification for mathematics and statistics. The major areas of collecting for the School of Mathematics and Statistics are as follows
The library has an extensive collection in the areas of collected work in mathematics, history of mathematics, applied mathematics, pure mathematics, and probability and statistics. Additional collecting focus is being directed to the areas of astrophysics and computational mathematics. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesSESTICON: As a member of SESTICON (South Eastern Scientific and Technical Information Consortium), Hargrave-Andrew cooperates with the member libraries covering this subject to consolidate and maximise holdings, thus providing the most effective access to information resources. Selected serial titles in areas of shared research interest are also circulated among the SESTICON libraries. (More infomation about SESTICON available lib.monash.edu.au/hal/sesticon.html) Rare Books collection: There is a significant collection in
the areas of in mathematics, astronomy and physics, mathematical philosophy, and
logic & relevant aspects of natural philosophy. The oldest book is : Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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| MOS | Description | Caulfield | Matheson | Law | HAL | Gippsland | Peninsula | Berwick |
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| 510 | Mathematics | R&T | ||||||
| 510.8 | Collected works | R | ||||||
| 510.9 | History of mathematics | R&T | ||||||
| 511 | Foundations, Combinatorics, Order | R&T | ||||||
| 512 | Algebra | R&T | ||||||
| 513 | Group theory, Real analysis | R&T | ||||||
| 513.6 | Calculus | R&T | ||||||
| 514 | Complex analysis | R&T | ||||||
| 515 | Further analysis | R&T | ||||||
| 516 | Geometry and topology | R&T | ||||||
| 516.4 | General topology | R&T | ||||||
| 517 | Probability, Statistics, Numerical analysis, Tables | R&T | ||||||
| 517.1 | Probability theory | R&T | ||||||
| 517.2 | Statistics | R&T |
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