Sequences, Series and Differential Calculus: Sequences and Seri es of real numbers:

Sequences and seri es of real numbers. Convergent and di vergent sequences, bounded
and monotone sequences, Convergence cri teri a for sequences of real numbers, Cauchy
sequences, absol ute and condi ti onal convergence; Tests of convergence for seri es of
posi ti ve terms compari son test, rati o test, root test, Lei bni tz test for convergence of
al ternati ng seri es.
Functions of one variable: l i mi t, conti nui ty, di fferenti ati on, Rol l e s Theorem, Mean
val ue theorem. Tayl or' s theorem. Maxi ma and mi ni ma.
Functions of two real variable: l i mi t, conti nui ty, parti al deri vati ves, di fferenti abi l i ty,
maxi ma and mi ni ma. Method of Lagrange mul ti pl i ers, Homogeneous functi ons i ncl udi ng
Eul er s theorem.
Integral Calculus: Integrati on as the i nverse process of di ffere nti ati on, defi ni te
i ntegral s and thei r properti es, Fundamental theorem of i ntegral cal cul us. Doubl e and
tri pl e i ntegral s, change of order of i ntegrati on. Cal cul ati ng surface areas a nd vol umes
usi ng doubl e i ntegral s and ppl i cati ons. Cal cul ati ng vol umes usi ng tri pl e i ntegral s and
appl i cati ons.
Differential Equations: Ordi nary di fferenti al equati ons of the fi rst order of the
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Mathematics
Sequences and Series: Convergence of sequences of real numbers, Compari son, root
and rati o tests for convergence of seri es of real numbers.
Differential Calculus: Li mi ts, conti nui ty and di fferenti abi l i ty of functi ons of one and
two vari abl es. Rol l e' s theorem, mean val ue theorems, Tayl or' s theorem, i ndetermi nate
forms, maxi ma and mi ni ma of functi ons of one and two vari abl es.
Integral Calculus: Fundamental theorems of i ntegral cal cul us. Doubl e and tri pl e
i ntegral s, appl i cati ons of defi ni te i ntegral s, arc l engths, areas and vol umes.
Matrices: Rank, i nverse of a matri x. systems of l i near equati ons. Li near
transformati ons, ei genval ues and ei genvectors. Cayl ey-Hami l ton theorem, symmetri c,
skew-symmetri c and orthogonal matri ces.
Differential Equations: Ordi nary di fferenti al equati ons of the fi rst order of the form y'
= f(x,y). Li near di fferenti al equati ons of the second order wi th constant coeffi ci ents.
Statistics Probability: Axi omati c defi ni ti on of probabi l i ty and properti es, condi ti onal
probabi l i ty, mul ti pl i cati on rul e. Theorem of total probabi l i ty. Bayes theorem and
i ndependence of events.
Random Variables: Probabi l i ty mass functi on, probabi l i ty densi ty functi on and
cumul ati ve di stri buti on functi ons, di stri buti on of a functi on of a random vari abl e.
Mathemati cal expectati on, moments and moment generati ng functi on. Chebyshev' s
i nequal i ty.
Standard Distributions: Bi nomi al , negati ve bi nomi al , geometri c, Poi sson,
hypergeometri c, uni form, exponenti al , gamma, beta and normal di stri buti ons. Poi sson
and normal approxi mati ons of a bi nomi al di stri buti on.
Joint Distributions: Joi nt, margi nal and condi ti onal di stri buti ons. Di stri buti on of
functi ons of random vari abl es. Product moments, correl ati on, si mpl e l i near reg ressi on.
Independence of random vari abl es.
Sampl i ng di stri buti ons: Chi -square, t and F di stri buti ons, and thei r properti es.
Limit Theorems: Weak l aw of l arge numbers. Central l i mi t theorem (i .i .d.wi th fi ni te
vari ance case onl y).
Estimation: Unbi asedness, consi stency and effi ci ency of esti mators, method of
moments and method of maxi mum l i kel i hood. Suffi ci ency, factori zati on theorem.
Compl eteness, Rao-Bl ackwel l and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems, uni forml y mi ni mum
vari ance unbi ased esti mators. Rao-Cramer i nequal i ty. Confi dence i nterval s for the
parameters of uni vari ate normal , two i ndependent normal , and one parameter
exponenti al di stri buti ons.
Testing of Hypotheses: Basi c concepts, appl i cati ons of Neyman-Pearson Lemma for
testi ng si mpl e and composi te hypotheses. Li kel i hood rati o tests for parameters of
uni vari ate normal di stri buti on.