CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Syllabus: Part B and Part C
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unit 1 |
Analysis |
Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, real number system, Archimedean property, supremacy, infinity. |
Sequences and series, convergence, limsup, limif. |
Bolzano Weierstrass theorem, Heine Borel theorem |
Continuity, uniform continuity, variation, mean value theorem. |
Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence. |
Riemann sums and Riemann integrals, improper integrals. |
linear algebra |
Vector spaces, subspaces, linear dependence, basis, dimensions, algebra of linear transformations |
Algebra of matrices, rank, and determinant of matrices, linear equations. |
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. |
Matrix representation of linear transformations. Change of base, canonical form, diagonal form, triangular form, Jordan form. |
Internal product space, vertical base. |
Quadratic Forms, Reduction and Classification of Quadratic Forms |
unit 2 |
complex analysis |
Algebra of complex numbers, complex plane, polynomials, power series, Transcendental functions such as exponential, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions |
Analytical functions, Cauchy-Riemann equation. |
Contour integral, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, Liouville’s theorem, maximum Modulus theory, Schwarz lemma, open mapping theorem. |
Taylor series, Laurent series, calculation of residues. |
Conformal mapping, Möbius transformation. |
algebra |
Permutation, Combination, Pigeon-hole Principle, Inclusion-Exclusion Principle, Disturbance. |
Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, divisibility in Z, congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, Euler’s Ø-function, primitive roots. |
Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, isomorphism, cyclic groups, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem, square equations and Sylow’s theorem. |
Rings, ideals, prime and maximum ideals, quotient rings, unique factor domains, prime ideal domains, Euclidean domains. |
Topology: Basis, dense sets, subspace and product topology, separation principle, connectivity and compactness. |
unit 3 |
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE): |
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of initial value problems for first-order ordinary differential equations, singular solutions of first-order ODEs, and systems of first-order ODEs. |
A general theory of homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear ODEs, variation of parameters, Sturm–Liouville boundary value problem, Green’s function. |
Partial differential equation (PDE) |
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 constants Coefficients, method of separation of variables for Laplace, heat and wave equations. |
numerical analysis |
Numerical solution of algebraic equations, method of iteration and Newton-Raphson method, rate of convergence, solution of systems of linear algebraic equations using Gauss elimination and Gauss-Seidel methods, finite difference, Lagrange, Hermite and spline interpolation, numerical differentiation and Numerical solutions of ODEs using integration, Picard, Euler, modified Euler and Ranj-Kutta methods. |
calculation of variations |
Functional variations, Euler-Lagrange equations, necessary and sufficient conditions for extrema. |
Variational methods for boundary value problems in ordinary and partial differential equations. |
linear integral equation |
Linear integral equations of the first and second types of Fredholm and Volterra type, solutions with different kernels. Characteristic numbers and eigenfunctions, resolving kernels. |
classical mechanics |
Generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, Hamilton’s canonical equations, Hamilton’s Theory and principle of minimum action, two-dimensional motion of rigid bodies, Euler’s dynamic equations for the motion of a rigid body around an axis, theory of small oscillations. |
unit 4 |
Descriptive Statistics, Exploratory Data Analysis |
Finite and countable state spaces, classification of states, finite behavior of n-phase transition probabilities, Markov chains with stationary distributions, Poisson and birth-and-death processes. |
Standard discrete and continuous univariate distributions. Sampling distributions, standard errors and asymptotic distributions, distributions of order statistics, and limits. |
Estimation methods, properties of estimators, confidence intervals. Tests of Hypotheses: The Most Powerful and Equally Most Powerful Test, Likelihood Ratio Test. Analysis of discrete data and chi-square test of goodness of fit. Large sample testing. |
Simple non-parametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation, and tests for independence, a priori Bayesian inference. |
Simple random sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling. The probability is proportional to the sample size. Ratio and Regression Methods. |
Hazard functions and failure rates, sensing and life testing, series and parallel systems. |