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Monographs, full courses, worked commentaries and short notes. Everything is free to read, free to download and free to pass on to a student. No account, no email, no paywall.

Pure Mathematics

Structure for its own sake

Course · Entrance

Permutations & Combinations

The theory and craft of counting, in two parts

Part I builds the grammar of counting from the ground to JEE Advanced. Part II turns to structure and symmetry for ISI, CMI, IAT, CSIR–NET, NBHM and olympiad work.

  • Counting
  • Symmetry
  • EAMCET → NBHM
93 pp Read Read-only
Monograph · Undergraduate

The Arithmetic of Disagreement

Monograph Series, Volume 14

A self-contained course in the mathematics of combining ordered lists — from Borda and Condorcet through Arrow’s theorem to the fusion rules used in modern retrieval.

  • Social choice
  • Order theory
  • Arrow’s theorem
57 pp Read Read-only
Short note · Undergraduate

Inverse Map vs Inverse Function

Monograph Series — Short Note 1

The notation f⁻¹ is overloaded: it names two entirely different objects depending on context, and conflating them leads to real errors. A few pages to fix it permanently.

  • Set theory
  • Notation
  • Foundations
5 pp Read Read-only

Applied Mathematics

Structure put to work

Course · PhD & beyond

Reinforcement Learning

From the Bellman Equation to Language Models

A complete course in sequential decision making: dynamic programming, temporal-difference learning, policy gradients, deep RL, offline methods, and policy optimisation for large language models.

  • Dynamic programming
  • Policy gradients
  • Offline RL
117 pp Read Read-only
Bridge monograph · PhD & beyond

Bridge Monograph — Numerics of SPDEs

The road to the stochastic heat equation

From first pictures to the research frontier: weak solutions, finite elements, operator semigroups, stochastic calculus, Gaussian measures and SPDE discretisation. Prepared as a self-study spine.

  • Weak solutions
  • Finite elements
  • Itô calculus
59 pp Read Read-only

Examination material

Across both branches

Commentary · Postgraduate

CSIR–UGC NET 2026 — Worked Commentary

Paper of 17 July 2026

All one hundred and twenty items, treated from first principles. Every concept developed in full — no step assumed, no result quoted without its reason.

  • CSIR-NET
  • Solutions
  • All areas
156 pp Read Read-only
Sample report · Entrance

Sample Solutions Report

MM-20260721 · Sets · Units & Dimensions · Mole Concept

What the practice exam returns when you finish it: score, subject and topic breakdown, and a full worked solution for every one of the 125 questions.

  • CUET
  • Report
  • Worked solutions
16 pp Read Read-only

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