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Syllabus For Mathematics

This document outlines the syllabus for a mathematics course covering several topics: Linear Algebra, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Algebra, Functional Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Mechanics, Topology, Probability and Statistics, Linear Programming, Calculus of Variation and Integral Equations. The syllabus provides an overview of the concepts and methods covered within each topic area.

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Syllabus For Mathematics

This document outlines the syllabus for a mathematics course covering several topics: Linear Algebra, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Algebra, Functional Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Mechanics, Topology, Probability and Statistics, Linear Programming, Calculus of Variation and Integral Equations. The syllabus provides an overview of the concepts and methods covered within each topic area.

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Syllabus for Mathematics

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MA-Mathematics

Linear Algebra: Finite dimensional vector spaces; Linear transformations


and their matrix representations, rank; systems of linear equations, eigen values and eigen
vectors, minimal polynomial, Cayley-Hamilton Theroem, diagonalisation, Hermitian,
Skew-Hermitian and unitary matrices; Finite dimensional inner product spaces, Gram-
Schmidt orthonormalization process, self-adjoint operators.

Complex Analysis: Analytic functions, conformal mappings, bilinear


transformations; complex integration: Cauchy’s integral theorem and formula; Liouville’s
theorem, maximum modulus principle; Taylor and Laurent’s series; residue theorem and
applications for evaluating real integrals.

Real Analysis: Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence,


power series, Fourier series, functions of several variables, maxima, minima; Riemann
integration, multiple integrals, line, surface and volume integrals, theorems of Green,
Stokes and Gauss; metric spaces, completeness, Weierstrass approximation theorem,
compactness; Lebesgue measure, measurable functions; Lebesgue integral, Fatou’s
lemma, dominated convergence theorem.

Ordinary Differential Equations: First order ordinary


differential equations, existence and uniqueness theorems, systems of linear first order
ordinary differential equations, linear ordinary differential equations of higher order with
constant coefficients; linear second order ordinary differential equations with variable
coefficients; method of Laplace transforms for solving ordinary differential equations,
series solutions; Legendre and Bessel functions and their orthogonality.

Algebra: Normal subgroups and homomorphism theorems, automorphisms;


Group actions, Sylow’s theorems and their applications; Euclidean domains, Principle
ideal domains and unique factorization domains. Prime ideals and maximal ideals in
commutative rings; Fields, finite fields.

Functional Analysis: Banach spaces, Hahn-Banach extension theorem,


open mapping and closed graph theorems, principle of uniform boundedness; Hilbert
spaces, orthonormal bases, Riesz representation theorem, bounded linear operators.
Numerical Analysis: Numerical solution of algebraic and transcendental equations:
bisection, secant method, Newton-Raphson method, fixed point iteration; interpolation:
error of polynomial interpolation, Lagrange, Newton interpolations; numerical
differentiation; numerical integration: Trapezoidal and Simpson rules, Gauss Legendre
quadrature, method of undetermined parameters; least square polynomial approximation;
numerical solution of systems of linear equations: direct methods (Gauss elimination, LU
decomposition); iterative methods (Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel); matrix eigenvalue
problems: power method, numerical solution of ordinary differential equations: initial
value problems: Taylor series methods, Euler’s method, Runge-Kutta methods.

Partial Differential Equations: Linear and quasilinear first order partial differential
equations, method of characteristics; second order linear equations in two variables and
their classification; Cauchy, Dirichlet and Neumann problems; solutions of Laplace,
wave and diffusion equations in two variables; Fourier series and Fourier transform and
Laplace transform methods of solutions for the above equations.

Mechanics: Virtual work, Lagrange’s equations for holonomic systems, Hamiltonian


equations.

Topology: Basic concepts of topology, product topology, connectedness, compactness,


countability and separation axioms, Urysohn’s Lemma.

Probability and Statistics: Probability space, conditional probability, Bayes theorem,


independence, Random variables, joint and conditional distributions, standard probability
distributions and their properties, expectation, conditional expectation, moments; Weak
and strong law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Sampling distributions, UMVU
estimators, maximum likelihood estimators, Testing of hypotheses, standard parametric
tests based on normal, X2 , t, F – distributions; Linear regression; Interval estimation.

Linear programming: Linear programming problem and its formulation, convex sets and
their properties, graphical method, basic feasible solution, simplex method, big-M and
two phase methods; infeasible and unbounded LPP’s, alternate optima; Dual problem and
duality theorems, dual simplex method and its application in post optimality analysis;
Balanced and unbalanced transportation problems, u -v method for solving transportation
problems; Hungarian method for solving assignment problems.

Calculus of Variation and Integral Equations: Variation problems with fixed boundaries;
sufficient conditions for extremum, linear integral equations of Fredholm and Volterra
type, their iterative solutions.

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