Maths
Maths
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Week 2: Isomorphism of Graphs, Paths and Circuits, Connected graphs, Eulerian circuits.
[1]: Chapter 9 (Section 9.3).
[1]: Chapter 10 (Section 10.1 [Theorems 10.1.4, and 10.1.5 without proofs]).
Week 4: Weighted graphs, Travelling salesman problem, Shortest path problem, Dijkstra’s algorithm
(without proof), Dijkstra’s algorithm improved (without proof).
[1]: Chapter 10 (Section 10.4 up to 10.4.3 [applications only]).
Week 9 and 10: Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms: Kruskal’s algorithm, Prim’s algorithm (without
proofs), Acyclic digraphs and Bellman’s algorithm.
[1]: Chapter 12 (Sections 12.3, and 12.4 [Proposition 12.4.5, and corollary 12.4.6 without proofs]).
Week 14 and 15: Flows and cuts, Max flow-min cut theorem, Matchings, Hall’s theorem.
[1]: Chapter 14 (Sections 14.1, 14.2, and 14.4).
Essential Reading
1. Goodaire, Edgar G., & Parmenter, Michael M. (2011). Discrete Mathematics with Graph Theory
(3rd ed.). Pearson Education Pvt. Ltd. Indian Reprint.
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Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi
Weeks 3 and 4: Order of a group and order of an element of a group; Subgroups and its
examples, Subgroup tests; Center of a group and centralizer of an element of a group.
[1]: Chapter 3.
Weeks 8 and 9: Cosets and Lagrange’s theorem; Definition and examples of normal subgroups,
Quotient groups.
[1]: Chapter 7 (up to Corollary 5, page 143).
[1]: Chapter 9 (up to Example 11, page 178).
Weeks 11 to 13: Definition, examples and properties of rings, subrings, integral domains, fields,
Characteristic of a ring.
[1]: Chapters 12, and 13.
Weeks 14 and 15: Ideals and factor rings; Ring homomorphisms and properties.
[1]: Chapter 14 (up to Example 9, page 251).
[1]: Chapter 15 (Definition and Examples 1 to 7, and properties of ring homomorphisms, up to
Corollary 2, page 268).
Essential Reading
1. Gallian, Joseph. A. (2017). Contemporary Abstract Algebra (9th ed.). Cengage Learning
India Private Limited, Delhi. Indian Reprint (2021).
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