CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Syllabus
CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Syllabus
UNIT – I
Analysis: Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, Real number
system as a complete ordered field, Archimedean property, supremum, infimum.
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 – III
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs):
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.
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 :
Numerical solutions 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 differences, Lagrange, Hermite and
spline interpolation, Numerical differentiation and integration, Numerical solutions of
ODEs using Picard, Euler, modified Euler and Runge-Kutta methods.
Calculus of Variations :
Variation of a functional, Euler-Lagrange equation, Necessary and sufficient
conditionsfor extrema. Variational methods for boundary value problems in ordinary
and partial differential equations.
Classical Mechanics :
Generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, Hamilton’s canonical equations,
Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action, Two-dimensional motion of rigid
bodies, Euler’s dynamical equations for the motion of a rigid body about an axis, theory
of small oscillations.
UNIT – IV
Descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis
Simple nonparametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation and testfor
independence. Elementary Bayesian inference.
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.