Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Syllabus for Mathematics (Qualifying) (OM  100) 
1.  Set  Theory:  Definition,  Notation,  Membership,  Subsets,  Supersets,  Cardinality, 
Countable  Sets,  Uncountable  Sets,  Finite  Sets,  Infinite  Sets,  Cartesian  Product, 
Commonly used Sets, Basic Set Operations, and Venn Diagrams. 
2.  Functions:  Definition,  Linear  Functions,  Quadratic  Functions,  Cubic  Functions, 
Plotting  the  graphs  of  functions  using  horizontal  and  vertical  shift,  Asymptotes, 
Rational Functions, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. One to one, Many to 
one, Into and Onto functions, Inverse of a function (if exists), Zeros of a function. 
Limits, continuity and differentiability of a function. 
3.  Differentiation:  Introduction  to  Derivatives,  Derivatives  of  some  commonly 
used  Functions,  Chain  Rule,  Derivatives  of  sum/difference/product  of  two 
functions,  Derivatives  of  Rational  Functions,  Higher  Order  Derivatives, 
Applications  and  Interpretation  of  Derivatives,  Determining  maxima,  minima, 
points of inflection of a function, Determining the curvature (convex/concave) of 
a function 
4.  Partial Differentiation: Differentiation of functions of more than one variable. 
5.  Integration:  Introduction,  Integration  by  Substitution,  Integration  by  partial 
fraction,  Integration  by  parts,  Introduction  to  Definite  Integration  and  its 
properties.  Applications  of  definite  integration  to  determine  the  area  under  a 
simple curve and the area enclosed between two curves 
6.  Differential  Equations:  Order  and  degree  of  differential  equations,  Solving  first 
order linear differential equations 
7.  Combinatorial  Analysis:  Permutations  and  combinations,  Binomial  theorem  for 
a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients. 
8.  Linear  Algebra:  Introduction  to  Matrices,  Addition,  Subtraction,  Scalar  and 
Matrix Multiplication, Transpose of a matrix, Matrices with special characteristics 
such  as  Diagonal  matrix,  Scalar  matrix,  Identity  matrix,  Symmetric  and  Skew-
symmetric matrix, Determinants, Properties of Determinants, Solving Systems of 
Simultaneous  Linear  Equations  using  Cramers  Rule,  Gaussian  Elimination 
method, Gauss Jordan Elimination method.  
9.  Co-ordinate Geometry: Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, shift 
of origin. Equation of a straight line in  various forms,  distance of a point from a 
line,  Lines  through  the  point  of  intersection  of  two  given  lines,  equation  of  the 
bisector of the angle between two lines, Equation of a circle.  
10. Progression:  Arithmetic,  geometric  and  harmonic  progressions,  arithmetic, 
geometric  and  harmonic  means,  sums  of  finite  arithmetic  and  geometric 
progressions,  infinite  geometric  series,  sums  of  squares  and  cubes  of  the  first  n 
natural numbers