nurture 2017
Winter School in Mathematics to the memory of Homi Jehangir Bhabha
4th - 23rd December 2017
10th - 22nd December 2017
Central University of Tamil Nadu




This workshop will aim to touch upon some of these topics

Foundation & Algebra

  • Foundation: Basic concepts of set, union, intersection, etc., lots of examples to be given. Index set, Cartesian product of sets, relations, equivalence relations, functions, 1-1 function, onto function, Partitions
  • Natural numbers, Well-ordering principle, induction principle, weak induction principle and their equivalence; Divisibility, Division algorithm; GCD and LCM; Bezout’s identity. irreducible elements and prime elements; Fundamental theorem of arithmetic
  • Linear Diophantine equations. Congruences; arithmetic of congruences; Chinese remainder theorem
  • Composition of functions and permutations, Decomposition
  • Theory of Groups, Isomorphism, Cosets and Langranges theorem, Cyclic groups, Cayley's theorem, Group action

Analysis

  • Upper and lower bounds, LUB and GLB, LUB axiom
  • Archimedean property, density of rationals and irrational, nested interval theorem
  • Sequences in R and convergence: algebra of convergent sequences, monotone sequences, Cauchy sequences and their convergence, subsequences, Bolzano- Weierstrass theorem, recursively defined sequences
  • Continuity: sequential definition, epsilon-delta definition and their equivalence. Intermediate value theorem

Linear Algebra

  • Systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, Geometric interpretation of solution sets, non-homogeneous and homogeneous systems of linear equations. Existence of nontrivial solutions for a homogeneous system of m linear equations in n variables with m < n
  • Vector spaces, vector subspaces, vector subspaces generated by a set of vectors, Linear dependence and independence, basis, dimension formula for the sum a two vector subspaces
  • Linear Transformations, Kernel and image, Rank-nullity theorem, Matrix Representation w.r.t ordered bases

Workshop Poster

Homi Jehangir Bhabha
(30 Oct 1909 - 24 Jan 1966)

Workshop Cloud







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