Part 1 Mathematics

Calculus: Functions of two or more variables, continuity, directional derivatives,

partial
derivatives, total derivative, maxima and minima, saddle point, method of
Lagrange’s
multipliers; Double and Triple integrals and their applications to area, volume and
surface
area; Vector Calculus: gradient, divergence and curl, Line integrals and Surface
integrals,
Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem, and Gauss divergence theorem.
Linear Algebra: Finite dimensional vector spaces over real or complex fields;
Linear
transformations and their matrix representations, rank and nullity; systems of
linear equations,
characteristic polynomial, eigen values and eigen vectors, diagonalization, minimal
polynomial, Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, Finite dimensional inner product spaces, Gram-
Schmidt orthonormalization process, symmetric, skew-symmetric, Hermitian, skew-
Hermitian,
normal, orthogonal and unitary matrices; diagonalization by a unitary matrix,
Jordan canonical
form; bilinear and quadratic forms.
Real Analysis: Metric spaces, connectedness, compactness, completeness; Sequences
and
series of functions, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem; Weierstrass
approximation
theorem; contraction mapping principle, Power series; Differentiation of functions
of several
variables, Inverse and Implicit function theorems; Lebesgue measure on the real
line,
measurable functions; Lebesgue integral, Fatou’s lemma, monotone convergence
theorem,
dominated convergence theorem.
Complex Analysis: Functions of a complex variable: continuity, differentiability,
analytic
functions, harmonic functions; Complex integration: Cauchy’s integral theorem and
formula;
Liouville’s theorem, maximum modulus principle, Morera’s theorem; zeros and
singularities;
Power series, radius of convergence, Taylor’s series and Laurent’s series; Residue
theorem
and applications for evaluating real integrals; Rouche’s theorem, Argument
principle, Schwarz
lemma; Conformal mappings, Mobius transformations.
Ordinary Differential equations: First order ordinary differential equations,
existence and
uniqueness theorems for initial value problems, linear ordinary differential
equations of higher
order with constant coefficients; Second order linear ordinary differential
equations with
variable coefficients; Cauchy-Euler equation, method of Laplace transforms for
solving
ordinary differential equations, series solutions (power series, Frobenius method);
Legendre
and Bessel functions and their orthogonal properties; Systems of linear first order
ordinary
differential equations, Sturm's oscillation and separation theorems, Sturm-
Liouville eigenvalue
problems, Planar autonomous systems of ordinary differential equations: Stability
of stationary
points for linear systems with constant coefficients, Linearized stability,
Lyapunov functions.
Algebra: Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms,
automorphisms; cyclic groups, permutation groups, Group action, Sylow’s theorems
and their
applications; Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique
factorization
domains, Principle ideal domains, Euclidean domains, polynomial rings, Eisenstein’s
irreducibility criterion; Fields, finite fields, field extensions, algebraic
extensions, algebraically
closed fields
Functional Analysis: Normed linear spaces, Banach spaces, Hahn-Banach theorem, open
mapping and closed graph theorems, principle of uniform boundedness; Inner-product
spaces, Hilbert spaces, orthonormal bases, projection theorem, Riesz representation
theorem, spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators.
Numerical Analysis: Systems of linear equations: Direct methods (Gaussian
elimination, LU
decomposition, Cholesky factorization), Iterative methods (Gauss-Seidel and Jacobi)
and their
convergence for diagonally dominant coefficient matrices; Numerical solutions of
nonlinear
equations: bisection method, secant method, Newton-Raphson method, fixed point
iteration;
Interpolation: Lagrange and Newton forms of interpolating polynomial, Error in
polynomial
interpolation of a function; Numerical differentiation and error, Numerical
integration:
Trapezoidal and Simpson rules, Newton-Cotes integration formulas, composite rules,
mathematical errors involved in numerical integration formulae; Numerical solution
of initial
value problems for ordinary differential equations: Methods of Euler, Runge-Kutta
method of
order 2.
Partial Differential Equations: Method of characteristics for first order linear
and quasilinear
partial differential equations; Second order partial differential equations in two
independent
variables: classification and canonical forms, method of separation of variables
for Laplace
equation in Cartesian and polar coordinates, heat and wave equations in one space
variable;
Wave equation: Cauchy problem and d'Alembert formula, domains of dependence and
influence, non-homogeneous wave equation; Heat equation: Cauchy problem; Laplace
and
Fourier transform methods.
Topology: Basic concepts of topology, bases, subbases, subspace topology, order
topology,
product topology, quotient topology, metric topology, connectedness, compactness,
countability and separation axioms, Urysohn’s Lemma.
Linear Programming: Linear programming models, convex sets, extreme points; Basic
feasible solution, graphical method, simplex method, two phase methods, revised
simplex
method ; Infeasible and unbounded linear programming models, alternate optima;
Duality
theory, weak duality and strong duality; Balanced and unbalanced transportation
problems,
Initial basic feasible solution of balanced transportation problems (least cost
method, north-
west corner rule, Vogel’s approximation method); Optimal solution, modified
distribution
method; Solving assignment problems, Hungarian method.

Part 2 Engineering Mathematics

Discrete Mathematics: Propositional and first order logic. Sets, relations,
functions, partial
orders and lattices. Monoids, Groups. Graphs: connectivity, matching, coloring.
Combinatorics: counting, recurrence relations, generating functions.
Linear Algebra: Matrices, determinants, system of linear equations, eigenvalues and
eigenvectors, LU decomposition.
Calculus: Limits, continuity and differentiability. Maxima and minima. Mean value
theorem.
Integration.
Probability and Statistics: Random variables. Uniform, normal, exponential, poisson
and
binomial distributions. Mean, median, mode and standard deviation. Conditional
probability
and Bayes theorem.