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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Syllabus
Subject: Mathematics

Three Years B.Sc. Pass Course


Effective from the Session: 2013–2014
National University
Subject: Mathematics
Syllabus for Three Year B.Sc. Pass Course
Session: 2013-2014
Course content and marks distribution

Paper Code Paper Paper Title Marks Credits


First Year
113701 Paper-I Fundamentals of Mathematics 100 4
113703 Paper-II Coordinate Geometry and Vector 100 4
Analysis

Detailed Syllabus

First Year
Paper Code Paper Paper Title Marks Credits
113701 Paper-I Fundamentals of Mathematics 100 4

Elements of logic: Mathematical statements, Logical connectives, Conditional and bi-


conditional statements. Truth tables and tautologies, Quantifiers, Logical implication and
equivalence, Deductive reasoning. Methods of proof (direct, indirect and Method of Induction.)
Set Theory: Sets and subsets, Set operations, Cartesian product of two sets, De Morgan’s laws.
Relations and functions: Relation and Functions, Order relation, Equivalence relations.
Functions. Images and inverse images of sets Injective, surjective and bijective functions.
Inverse functions.
The Real Number System: Field and order properties, Natural numbers, integers and rational
numbers, Absolute value and their properties. Basic inequalities.(Including inequalities of means,
powers; inequalities of Cauchy, Chebyshev, Weierstrass).
The Complex Number System: Field of Complex numbers, De Moivre’s theorem and its
applications.
Theory of equations: Number of roots of polynomial equation.Relations between roots and
coefficients, Symmetric functions of roots, Sum of the powers of roots, Synthetic division, Des
Cartes rule of signs, Multiplicity of roots, Transformation of equations.
Elementary number theory: Divisibility, Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, Congruences
(basic properties only)
Summation of Series: Summation of algebrice and trigonometric series, Arithmetieo- geometric
series.

Books Recommended:
1. Schaums Outline Series- Theory and problems on set theory and related topics.
2. S. Bernard & J M Child – Higher algebra.
3. Md. Abdur Rahman – Basic Algebra
4. Fazlur Rahman & Hafizur Rahman – Fundamentals of Mathmetics.
Paper Code Paper Paper Title Marks Credits
113703 Paper-II Coordinate Geometry and Vector 100 4
Analysis

Two-dimensional Geometry: Transformation of coodinates, Pair of straight lines (homogeneous second


degree equations, general second degree equations representing pair of straight lines, angle between pair
of straight lines, bisectors of angle between pair of straight lines), General equations of second degree
(reduction to standard forms, identifications, properties and tracing of conics).

Three-dimensional Geometry: Coordinates, Distance, Direction cosines and direction ratios, Planes
(equation of plane, angle between two planes, distance of a point from a plane), Straight lines (equation of
lines relationship between planes and lines, shortest distance) Spheres.

Vector Analysis: Vectors in plane and space. Algebra of vectors. Rectangular Components. Scatar and
Vector products. Triple scalar product. Applications of vector to geometry (vector equations of straight
lines and planes, areas and volunes). The gradient, divergence and curl of a vector function.

Book Recommended:
1. H. H. Askwith – Analytic Geometry of Conic Section
2. J. A. Hummel – Vector Geometry
3. Fazlur Rahman & Hafizur Rahman – Analytic and Vector Geometry.

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