Tools for quantitative reasoning and basic college level mathematical concepts for social science students. Mathematics of finance, linear equations and matrices, probability, game theory, derivative, integral, special functions: log, exp, trigonometric and function sketching techniques.

Linear algebra and matrix theory; mathematics of finance; counting and the fundamentals of probability theory; game theory.

Limit of a function; Continuous functions and their properties; Derivative andapplications; Extreme values; Indefinite integral; Riemann integral and fundamental theorem of calculus; Logarithmic and exponential functions; L?Hospital?s rule; Sequence and series of numbers; Power series and their properties;

Sets; logic and implications; proof techniques with examples; mathematical induction and well-ordering; equivalence relations; functions; cardinality; countable and uncountable sets.

Counting problems; combinatorial methods; integers, divisibility and primes; graphs and trees; combinatorics in geometry; introduction to complexity and cryptography.

Limits and continuity; derivative and properties of differentiable functions; mean value theorems, Taylor's formula, extreme values; indefinite integral and integral rules; Riemann integral and fundamental theorem of calculus; L'Hospital's rule; improper integrals.

Vectors; matrices and systems of linear equations; vector spaces; linear maps; orthogonality; algebra of complex numbers; eigenvalue problems.

Descriptive statistics; measures of association, correlation, simple regression; probability theory, conditional probability, independence; random variables and probability distributions; sampling distributions; estimation; inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis testing). Topics are supported by computer applications.

A course in basic concepts and tools of statistics for students who will study social and Behavioral sciences. Topics to be covered are representation of quantitative information in social sciences, forms of numerical data, creating and interpreting graphical and tabular summaries of data, descriptive statistics, estimation of population parameters, confidence intervals, basic hypothesis testing, t-statistics, chi-squared tests and analysis of variance.

Functions of several variables; partial differentiation; directional derivatives; exact differentials; multiple integrals and their applications; vector analysis; line and surface integrals; Green?s, Divergence and Stoke?s theorems.

First order differential equations. Second order linear equations. Series solutions of ODE?s. The Laplace transform and applications. Systems of first order linear equations. Nonlinear equations and systems:existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions. Fourier series and partial differential equations.

Natural numbers; modular arithmetic; introduction to groups; cyclic and permutation groups; homomorphisms and isomorphisms; normal; factor, simple and free groups; introduction to rings, integral domains, and fields; factor rings and ideals; extension fields; outline of Galois theory.

Natural numbers; modular arithmetic; introduction to groups; cyclic and permutation groups; homomorphisms and isomorphisms; normal; factor, simple and free groups; introduction to rings, integral domains, and fields; factor rings and ideals; extension fields; outline of Galois theory.

Review of Unique Factorization Domains and Principal IdeaI Domains, Maximal and prime ideals, Nilradical, Local rings, Modules, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, Nakayama's lemma, Exact and split exact sequences, Noetherian rings, Noetherian modules, Hilbert basis theorem, Integral extensions, Integral closure, Non-singularity, Normal rings, Noether normalization, Hilbert nullstellensatz, Spec(A), Localization, Support of a module and the associated primes, Discrete valuation rings, Trace and separability, Completion, Artin-Rees Lemma, An overview of further topics: Dimension theory, Regular rings, Connections with geometric notions.

Completeness axiom for real numbers; convergent sequences; compactness; continuous functions; differentiation; linear and topological structure of Euclidean spaces; limit, compactness and connectedness in a Euclidean space; continuity and differentiation of functions of several variables; inverse and implicit function theorems.

Descriptive statistics; Probability; Random variables; Special distributions; Estimation; Hypothesis testing; Normal distribution; Two-Sample Inference; Regression.

Metric spaces and their topology; continuity, compactness and connectedness in a metric space; completion of a metric space; differentiation and Riemann integration; sequences and series of functions; uniform convergence; Ascoli-Arzela theorem; Stone-Weierstrass theorem; Banach fixed-point theorem and its applications.

Normed and Banach spaces; linear operators; duality; inner product and Hilbert spaces; Riesz representation theorem; Hahn-Banach theorem; uniform boundedness principle; open mapping theorem; strong, weak and weak* convergence.

Review of vector calculus; Fourier series and Fourier transform; Calculus of functions of a complex variable.

Fixed point iteration and Newton’s method for nonlinear equations, direct solution of linear systems and the least squares problem, symmetric positive definite and banded matrices, systems of nonlinear equations, the QR algorithm for the symmetric eigenvalue problem, Lagrange and Hermite polynomial interpolation, polynomial approximation in the infinity norm and the Chebyshev polynomials, approximation in the 2 norm and the orthogonal polynomials, numerical differentiation, Newton-Cotes and Gaussian quadratures for numerical integration.

Classification of second order partial equations; well posed problems; method of separation of variables and applications; wave equation: D?Alambert?s solution; Laplace equation: Poisson?s formula, maximum principle, boundary value and eigenvalue problems; heat equation: Cauchy problem, maximum principle.

Decision theory; estimation; confidence intervals; hypotheses testing; large-sample theory; efficiency of alternative statistical procedures.

Finite-dimensional real and complex vector spaces, bases of a vector space, linear maps, dual spaces, quadratic forms, self-adjoint and unitary transformations, eigenvalue problem, canonical form of a linear transformation, tensors, and applications.

Detailed examination of current topics in Mathematics.