MATHEMATICALSCIENCES MathematicalSciencesquestionpaperwillconsistof40multiplechoicequestionsfrom mathematics.Therewillbenegativemarkingforwronganswers.Durationofthetestis2hours. SYLLABUS 1.

. Algebra: TheoryofEquations: Relationbetweenrootsandcoefficientsofanequation,Symmetricfunctionsofroots,Rolles theorem, Reciprocal Equations, Descartes Rule of Signs, Cubic and quartic equations, ComplexnumbersandDeMoivresTheorem. Determinants: Propertiesofdeterminants,SolutionofaLinearSystem,CramersRule. Inequalities: AMGMinequality,CauchySchwarzinequality. SetTheory: Relations, Functions, Bijections, Cardinality, Permutations and combinations of sets and multisets,Discreteprobability. AlgebraicStructures: Groups, Subgroups, Cosets, Normal subgroups, Symmetric group, Homomorphisms. Rings, IntegralDomains,Ideals,PrimeandMaximalIdeals,PolynomialRings. VectorSpaces: Subspaces, Linear independence, Bases and dimension, Linear transformations, Matrices, Rankandnullity,eigenvaluesandeigenvectors,CayleyHamiltonTheorem. 2. Geometry: TwodimensionalCoordinateGeometry: ConicsectionsandtheirequationsinCartesianandpolarcoordinates.Pairofstraightlines, circle,ellipse,parabolaandhyperbola. ThreedimensionalCoordinateGeometry: Lines,DirectionCosines,Skewlines,Planes,Spheres,CylindersandCones. 3. VectorAlgebraandVectorCalculus: Vectors, addition, scalar multiplication, dot product, cross product, Scalar triple product, EquationstotheLineandthePlane,Grad,DivergenceandCurl,VectorIntegration,Greens, GaussandStokesTheorems.

 4. CalculusandAnalysis: Real Number System, Sequence and Series, Continuity, Differentiability, Mean Value Theorems,IntermediateValueTheorem,LHospitalsRule,TangentsandNormals,Maxima andMinima,RiemannIntegration,MultipleIntegrals,Partialdifferentiation,Lengths,areas andvolumesbyintegration. 5. DifferentialEquations: First Order ODE; Method of Separation of Variables; Exact equations; Eulers equation; OrthogonalFamilyofcurves,SecondOrderLinearODE:VariationofParameters.