Part 1: Core Courses
- Group theory
- subgroups
- permutation groups
- homomorphisms
- kernels and images
- normal subgroups, quotient groups
- isomorphism theorems
- Ring and field theory
- homomorphisms
- kernels and images
- ideals, quotient rings
- isomorphism theorems
- integral domains
- polynomial rings
- principal ideal domains
- fields
References:
- Fraleigh: A First Course in Abstract Algebra
- Gallian: Contemporary Abstract Algebra
- Herstein: Topics in Algebra
- Friedberg, Insel, Spence: Linear Algebra
- Metric spaces, sequence
- Open and Closed sets, Limits and Continuity in metric spaces
- Connectedness, Completeness and Compactness and relation to Continuity. Uniform Continuity
- Riemann Integration - definition, properties, sets of measure zero, Riemann-Lebesgues Theorem
- Derivatives, Rolle's Theorem and Mean Value Theorem
- Sequences of Functions, Pointwise versus Uniform Convergence and relation to continuity and derivatives
- Series of Functions, Weierstrass M test, relation to continuity, integration and derivatives.
References:
- Richard Goldberg, Methods of Real Analysis, 2nd edition
- Marsden and Hoffman: Elementary Classical Analysis
- Apostol: Mathematical Analysis
- Rootfinding
- Existence and uniqueness of roots
- Bisection
- Newton's method
- Fixed-point iteration
- Determining if an approximation is sufficiently accurate
- Finite difference approximations and partial differential equations
- Derivative approximation formulas
- Explicit and implicit methods for the heat equation and related PDEs
- Linear systems - Direct methods
- Gaussian elimination
- LU Decomposition and back substitution
- Positive definite matrices and Choleski
- Banded/sparse systems
- Vector and matrix norms
- Linear systems - Iterative methods
- Jacobi's method
- Gauss-Seidel
- General matrix splitting
References:
- Burden and Faires: Numerical Analysis
- Timothy Sauer: Numerical Analysis
Part 2: Choose 2 from 4
- Holomorphic (or Analytic) Functions of a Complex Variable
- Cauchy-Riemann Conditions and Harmonic Functions
- Elementary Complex Functions ( ez, zn, z1/n, logz)
- Complex Integration
- Cauchy - Goursat Theorem
- Cauchy Integral Formula
- Morera's Theorem
- Liouville's Theorem
- Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- Maximum Principle
- Taylor Series of Holomorphic Functions
- Power Series as Holomorphic Functions
- Meromorphic Functions
- Laurent Series
- Residues and Contour Integration
- Mobius (or Linear Fractional) Transformations
- Conformal Mapping
- Entire Functions and Picard's Little Theorem
- Argument Principle and Rouche's Theorem
References:
- Brown and Churchill: Complex Variables and Applications
- Marsden and Hoffman: Basic Complex Analysis
- Ahlfors: Complex Analysis
- Stein and Shakarchi: Complex Analysis
- Hille: Analytic Function Theory
- Spiegel: Schaum's Outline of Complex Variables
- Topological spaces
- Interior, closure, boundary
- Relative topology
- Bases, subbases
- Continuous functions
- Homeomorphisms
- Product spaces
- Quotient spaces
- Connectedness, path-connectedness
- Compactness
- Separation axioms
Differential Equations:
- Power series solutions
- Laplace transforms
- Homogeneous and non-homogenous systems of linear differential equations
- Fourier series
- Matrix exponential
References:
- Zill: Differential Equations
- Boyce and DiPrima: Elementary Differential Equations
- Formulating linear programming models
- Solving linear programming problems using the simplex method
(and using the two-phase simplex method when appropriate) - The theory of the simplex method; convergence
- The geometry of linear programming; convexity
- Duality theory, including the complementary slackness theorem
- Sensitivity analysis
- The Dual simplex method
- The transportation problem
References:
- Thie: An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory
- Winston and Venkataramanan: Introduction to Mathematical Programming