Physics and mathematics: Books

Printed books for loan can be found in the Learning Centre and the Library of Mathematics and Systems Analysis. You can check the shelf category on Aalto-Primo.

Books on mathematics are in classes 00-99 according to the Mathematics Subject Classification by AMS (American Mathematical Society). You can check the shelf category on Aalto-Primo database.

Course books are located on the first floor of the Learning Centre and department libraries.
The Learning Centre acquires also e-book versions if available for the e-book platforms of the Aalto University.

Short loans

In addition to all course books for loan in Learning Centre there is a collection titled Lyhytlainat (Short loans) on the first floor.

Location service helps you to find printed books and journals in the Aalto University libraries.

If you can't find the book from Aalto University libraries:

• Check the availability from Finnish libraries using national Finna portal
• Aalto University students and staff can order article copies free of charge from the National Repository Library: Loans and copies from the National Repository Library
• Make an inter-library request from other libraries: Order items from other libraries
• Suggest a book for acquisition
• Search from foreign library catalogues, e. g. British Library

Search printed books and e-books from Aalto-Primo portal. Choose Library Catalog. Or search e-books from diffrent e-book databases.

Aalto-Primo is the search service of Aalto University Learning Centre. It contains the references for the collections for retrieval and location purposes. Aalto-Primo provides descriptions and availability information for books, textbooks, e-books, doctoral theses, reports, conference publications, printed journals and serials.

You'll find also e-books from Aalto-Primo. It is also recommended to search e-books from various e-book databases, where you can make exact searches by subject areas.

In Advanced search you can make subject searches using search words.   

Aalto University students and staff:

• Using university workstations on landline network

• Using Aalto University username and password to login from outside of the university network (off-campus use)

• Using the Eduroam network or through VPN connection whenever needed

Other customers:

• Using Learning Centre workstations

Read more about using e-resources and conditions of use for e-resources.