nurture 2018 Summer School in Mathematics to the memory of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis 22nd July 2018 - 10th August 2018 Central University of Tamil Nadu (Funded by NBHM, Dept. Atomic Energy)
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
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (29 June 1893 - 28 June 1972)