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Calculus and Optimization
Single-variable calculus and its optimization — directly covered.
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Engineering Mathematics-I
B.Tech Semester 1 · Dr. D.C. Agarwal
Covers: Single-variable calculus — limits, continuity and differentiability, the mean-value and Taylor/Maclaurin theorems, and maxima and minima.
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Statistical Mathematics (MCA)
MCA 1st Semester · Dr. D.C. Agarwal, Dr. Pradeep K. Joshi
Covers: Limits and continuity, the mean-value theorems and L’Hospital’s rule, and maxima and minima.
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- Functions of a single variable; limit, continuity and differentiability
- Taylor series; maxima and minima
- Optimization involving a single variable