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Syllabus
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
UNIT – 1
Analysis: Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, Real
number system as a complete ordered field, Archimedean property, supremum,
infimum.
UNIT – 2
Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique factorization domain,
principal ideal domain, Euclidean domain.
Topology: basis, dense sets, subspace and product topology, separation axioms,
connectedness and compactness.
UNIT – 3
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of initial value problems for first order
ordinary differential equations, singular solutions of first order ODEs, system of first
order ODEs.
Lagrange and Charpit methods for solving first order PDEs, Cauchy problem for first
order PDEs.
Classification of second order PDEs, General solution of higher order PDEs with
constant coefficients, Method of separation of variables for Laplace, Heat and Wave
equations.
Numerical Analysis :
Calculus of Variations:
Linear integral equation of the first and second kind of Fredholm and Volterra type,
Solutions with separable kernels. Characteristic numbers and eigenfunctions,
resolvent kernel.
Classical Mechanics:
UNIT – 4
Markov chains with finite and countable state space, classification of states, limiting
behaviour of n-step transition probabilities, stationary distribution, Poisson and
birth-and-death processes.
Simple nonparametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation and
test for independence. Elementary Bayesian inference.
Hazard function and failure rates, censoring and life testing, series and parallel
systems.
All students are expected to answer questions from Unit I. Students in mathematics
are expected to answer additional question from Unit II and III. Students with in
statistics are expected to answer additional question from Unit IV