Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam 2020

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Get here recommended books for CMI entrance exam 2020 for BSc Mathematics and, MSc Data Sciences, Computer Sciences and Mathematics.

The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) will be conducting its entrance exam for admissions to BSc and MSc courses. Candidates appearing for the CMI entrance exam 2020 tentatively scheduled to be held on August 1 must prepare sufficiently to score well. For this, they should aim for each subject specifically and get the best preparation material for CMI entrance exam. Here we have listed the books for CMI entrance exam 2020 as recommended by the institute itself.

Table of content
  • Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam BSc (Honours)
  • Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam MSc/PhD Computer Science
  • Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam MSc/PhD Mathematics

Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam BSc (Honours)

CMI has not shared any details about syllabus of CMI BSc Mathematics and Computer Science entrance exam 2020. Candidates, however, need to prepare the following syllabus from Class 11th and 12th for this paper:

  • Quadratic Equation
  • Sequences and Series
  • Trigonometric Equation
  • Differentiability
  • Integration
  • Differential Equation
  • Area Under the Curve
  • Straight Line
  • Vector
  • Permutation and combination
  • Probability
  • Complex Number
  • Binominal Theorem
  • Determinant
  • Statistics
  • Maxima and Minima
  • Hyperbola and Parabola
  • Mathematical Reasoning
  • Height & Distance
  • Sets

As recommended by CMI, the following books would be best for CMI entrance exam for BSc preparation:

Books name

Author/ Publisher

Challenge and Thrill of Pre-College Mathematics by New Age International Publishers

V Krishnamoorthy, CR Pranesachar, KN Ranganathan, BJ Venkatachala

An Excursion in Mathematics, Bhaskaracharya Pratishtan (Pune)

MR Modak, SA. Katre, VV Acharya

Mathematical Circles: Russian experience, Universities Press (Hyderabad) 1998

Fomin, S Genkin, I Itenberg

Higher Algebra

HS Hall, SR Knight

Class 11th and 12th Mathematics

NCERT

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Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam MSc Data Sciences

Candidates have to prepare the following topics to score well in this section:

  • Mathematics
  • Discrete mathematics
  • Probability theory
  • Logic
  • Data structures
  • Programming

Now, to prepare the Data Sciences papers for CMI entrance exam 2020, candidates can take help of the following books:

Books

Author

Elements of Discrete Mathematics

McGraw Hill B and CL Liu

Discrete Mathematics

Oxford University Press and Norman Biggs

A First Course in Probability

Pearson and Sheldon M Ross

Understanding Probability

Cambridge University Press and Henk Tijms

How to Solve it By Computer

Pearson and RG Dromey

Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam MSc/PhD Computer Science

Candidates preparing for CMI entrance exam 2020 for Computer Sciences subject have to cover the syllabus of BSc level as under:

Discrete Mathematics and Elementary probability theory – topics including Sets and relations, elementary counting techniques, pigeon hole principle, partial orders

Logic – topics covered Boolean logic, truth tables, boolean circuits — and, or, not, and, nand gates.

Automata Theory – topics including, Regular expressions, non-deterministic and deterministic finite automata, subset construction, regular languages, non-regularity (pumping lemma), context-free grammars, basic ideas about computable and no computable functions.

Algorithms – Important topics including, O notation, recurrence relations, the time complexity of algorithms, sorting and searching (bubble sort, quick sort, merge sort, heap sort)

Data structures - topics including, Lists, queues, stacks, binary search trees, heaps

Graphs - topics including, Basic definitions, trees, bipartite graphs, matchings in bipartite graphs, breadth-first search, depth-first search, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths

Algorithmic techniques - Dynamic programming, divide and conquer, greedy included

In order to prepare for this section, candidates can refer the books based on the above syllabus:

Books

Author/ Publisher

Graph Theory

Narosa, Frank Harary

Introduction to Automata, Languages and Computation

John Hopcroft and Jeffrey D Ullman

Algorithm Design

Pearson; Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos

Elements of Discrete Mathematics

Tata McGraw-Hill; C. Liu

Best Books for CMI Entrance Exam MSc/PhD Mathematics

Candidates appearing for MSc-PhD entrance exam of CMI have to cover vast syllabus as mentioned by the exam authority. The main topics from BSc level Mathematics are:

  • Algebra 
  • Complex Analysis
  • Calculus and Real Analysis
  • Topology
  • Applications of Mathematics

The books for CMI entrance exam 2020 Mathematics level are:

Books

Authors/ Publishers

Algebra

M Artin

Topics in Algebra

Herstein

Basic Algebra

Jacobson

Abstract Algebra

Dummit and Foote

Functions of one complex variable

John Conway

Complex Analysis

L V Ahlfors

Complex Analysis

J Bak and D J Newman

Principles of mathematical analysis

Rudin

Real Analysis

Royden

Calculus

Apostol

Topology

James Munkres

Calculus

Tom M. Apostol

Understanding Mathematics

K.B. Sinha et al, Universities Press, Hyderabad.

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