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Faculty of Science Handbook, Session 2017/2018





               Medium of Instruction:                          SIM3002  COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS
               English
                                                               Theory  of  Enumeration:  Topics  will  be  chosen  from:
               Humanity Skill:                                 Permutation   and   Combination,   advanced   counting
               CS3, CT5, LL2                                   numbers,  generating  functions,  principle  of  inclusion  and
                                                               exclusion.
               References:
               1.  Zill  D.G.,  Wright,  W.S.  &  Cullen,  M.R.  (2013).  Combinatorial Designs: Topics will be chosen from: Block
                   Differential Equations with Boundary-value Problems,  designs, balanced incomplete block designs, Steiner triple
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                   Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning (8 edition).   system,  Hadamard  matrices,  pigeonhole  principle  and
               2.  Chicone,  C.  (2006).      Ordinary  Differential  Equations  Ramsey theory for graphs.
                   with Applications, Springer (2 edition).
                                        nd
               3.  Logan.  J.D.  (2011).  A  First  Course  in  Differential  Assessment:   40%
                                                               Continuous Assessment:
                   Equations, Springer (2nd edition).          Final Examination:           60%
                                                               Medium of Instruction:
               SIM2009 GEOMETRY                                English
               Euclidean  Geometry,  congruence,  parallelism,  similarity,  Humanity Skill:
               isometry, Incidence geometry of the sphere, motions of the  CS3, CT3, LL2
               sphere.
                                                               References:
               Assessment:                                     1.  Brualdi,  R.  A.  (2009). Introductory  Combinatorics,
               Continuous Assessment:       40%                    North Holland Publ. Co. (5 edition).
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               Final Examination:           60%                2.  Stanley,  R.P.  (2011).    Enumerative  Combinatorics,
                                                                   Volume 1, Cambridge University Press (2 edition).
                                                                                                nd
               Medium of Instruction:                          3.  Liu,  C.L. (1968).    Introduction  to  Combinatorial
               English                                             Mathematics, Computer Science Series, McGraw Hill
                                                                   Book Co.
               Humanity Skill:                                 4.  Street,  A.P.  and  Wallis,  W.D.  (1997).  Combinatorial
               CS3, CT3, LL2                                       Theory:  An  Introduction,  The  Charles  Babbage
                                                                   Research Center, Manitoba, Canada.
               References:                                     5.  Tucker, A. (2012). Applied Combinatorics, John Wiley
               1.  Ryan  P.J.  (1986). Euclidean  and  non-Euclidean  and Sons (6 edition).
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                   geometry, Cambridge Univ. Press.
               2.  Kumaresan  S.  (2005).  An  expedition  to  geometry,
                   Hindustan Book Agency                       SIM3003  NUMBER THEORY
               3.  Henle,  M.  (2001).  Modern  Geometries:  Non-
                   Euclidean,  Projective,  and  Discrete  Geometry,  Prime  Numbers.  The  Division  Algorithm  and  Unique
                   Pearson (2 edition).                        Factorization  Theorem  for  Integers.  Linear  Diophantine
                           nd
               4.  Kappraff,  J.  (2014).    A  Participatory  Approach  to  Equations.  Theory  of  congruence  and  the  Chinese
                   Modern Geometry, World Scientific.          Remainder Theorem. RSA encryption. Quadratic reciprocity
                                                               and  the  Legendre  symbol.  Arithmetic  functions.  Primitive
                                                               roots.
               SIM3001 GRAPH THEORY
                                                               Assessment:
               Graph theory and its applications.              Continuous Assessment:       40%
               Topics  will  be  selected  from  the  following :  Final Examination:       60%
               Eulerian graphs, trees, planar graphs, graph colouring and
               chromatic  polynomials,  Hamiltonian  graphs,  matching  Medium of Instruction:
               theory,  directed  graphs  and  the  shortest  path  problem,  English
               network theory.
                                                               Humanity Skill:
               Assessment:                                     CS3, CT5, LL2
               Continuous Assessment:       40%
               Final Examination:           60%                References:
                                                               1.  Burton,  D.  (2010).  Elementary  Number  Theory,
               Medium of Instruction:                              McGraw Hill Publ. Co. (7 edition).
                                                                                    th
               English
                                                               2.  Rosen, K. H. (2010) Elementary Number Theory and
                                                                                                  th
               Humanity Skill:                                     Its Applications, Pearson Addison Wesley (6 edition).
               CT3, LL2                                        3.  Davenport,  H.  (2008).    The  Higher  Arithmetic,
                                                                   Cambridge University Press (8 edition).
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               References:                                     4.  Baker, A. (1985). A Concise Introduction to the Theory
                1.  Koh, K.M.,  Dong, F.,  Ng, K.L. and  and Tay, E.G.  of Numbers, Cambridge University Press.
                    (2015).  Graph Theory: Undergraduate Mathematics,  5.  Baker, A. (2012). A Comprehensive Course in Number
                    World Scientific.                              Theory, Cambridge University Press.
                2.  Chartrand,  G.  and  Lesniak,  L.  (2010).  Graphs  and
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                    digraphs, CRC Press (5 edition).
                3.  Gross,  J.L.,  Yellan,  J.  and  Zhang,  P.  (2013).  SIM3004  ADVANCED LINEAR ALGEBRA
                    Handbook  of  Graph  Theory  (Discrete  Mathematics
                    and its Applications), CRC Press (2 edition).  Inner product spaces, the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization
                                             nd
                                                               process   and   orthogonal   complements.   Orthogonal
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