CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Syllabus 2023 | Books, Study Materials & Papers

S.No.

Sections

No. of Ques. Given

No. of Ques. to be Attempted

Marks

Neg. Marking

Duration of Exam

1

PART-A

20

15

30

0.5

3 Hours

2

PART-B

40

20

75

0.75

3

PART-C

60

20

95

0

TOTAL MARKS

200

Units

CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Syllabus

Unit 1

Analysis: Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, Real number system as a complete ordered field, Archimedean property, supremum, infimum. Sequences and series, convergence, limsup, liminf. Bolzano Weierstrass theorem, Heine Borel theorem. Continuity, Differentiability, Mean value theorem, Sequences, and series. Functions of several variables, Metric spaces, compactness, connectedness. Normed Linear Spaces.

Linear Algebra: Vector spaces, algebra of linear transformations. Algebra of matrices, determinant of matrices, linear equations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Matrix representation of linear transformations. Change of basis, canonical forms, diagonal forms, triangular forms, Jordan forms.Quadratic forms, reduction, and classification of quadratic forms

Unit 2

Complex Analysis: Algebra of complex numbers, the complex plane, polynomials, power series, transcendental functions such as exponential, trigonometric, and hyperbolic functions. Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations. Contour integral, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, Liouville’s theorem, Maximum modulus principle, Schwarz lemma, Open mapping theorem. Taylor series, Laurent series, calculus of residues. Conformal mappings, Mobius transformations.

Algebra: Permutations, combinations, Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, divisibility in Z, congruences, Chinese Remainder Theorem, Euler’s Ø- function, primitive roots, Cayley’s theorem, Sylow theorems. Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique factorization domain, Polynomial rings, and irreducibility criteria. Fields, finite fields, field extensions, Galois Theory.

Topology: basis, dense sets, subspace and product topology, separation axioms, connectedness, and compactness. 

Unit 3

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, the system of first-order ODEs.

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs): 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: Numerical solutions of algebraic equations, Method of iteration and Newton-Raphson method, Rate of convergence, 

Calculus of Variations: Variation of a functional, Euler-Lagrange equation, Necessary and sufficient conditions for extrema. Variational methods for boundary value problems in ordinary and partial differential equations.

Linear Integral Equations: 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: Generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, Hamilton’s canonical equations, Hamilton’s principle and the principle of least action, Two-dimensional motion of rigid bodies, Euler’s dynamical equations for the motion of a rigid body about an axis, the theory of small oscillations. 

Unit 4

Descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis, Sample space, discrete probability, independent events, Bayes theorem. Random variables and distribution functions (univariate and multivariate); expectation and moments. Independent random variables, marginal and conditional distributions.

Standard discrete and continuous univariate distributions. Sampling distributions, standard errors and asymptotic distributions, distribution of order statistics, and range.

Methods of estimation, properties of estimators, confidence intervals. Tests of hypotheses, Gauss-Markov models, estimability of parameters, best linear unbiased estimators, confidence intervals, tests for linear hypotheses. Analysis of variance and covariance. Simple and multiple linear regression, Multivariate normal distribution, Distribution of quadratic forms. 

Data Reduction Techniques: Principle component analysis, Discriminant analysis, Cluster analysis, Canonical correlation.
Simple random sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling. Probability proportional to size sampling.

CSIR NET Mathematical Sciences Reference Books

Topics

Authors

Real Analysis

H.L. Royden

Linear Algebra

Hoffman and Kunze

Complex Analysis

R.V.Churchill

Algebra

Joseph A. Gallian

Topology

G .F. Simmons

Ordinary & Partial Differential Equations

M.D. Rai Singhania

Numerical Analysis

Jain and lyenger

Calculus of Variations

A. S. Gupta

Linear Integral Equations

Shanti Swarup

Classical Mechanics

H. Goldstein

Statics

S. C. Gupta