01Algebra
Groups, rings, fields, modules — and the canonical forms that classify a linear map up to similarity.
- Group theory
- Ring & field theory
- Linear algebra
- Canonical forms
- Galois theory
Structure for its own sake
Pure mathematics asks what is true, and why, with no obligation to be useful. Every applied technique on the other branch of this site was once somebody’s pure curiosity.
Areas
Groups, rings, fields, modules — and the canonical forms that classify a linear map up to similarity.
Limits made honest. From the completeness of the reals to Lebesgue measure and functional analysis.
What survives bending. Open sets, compactness, manifolds — including the torus in our own mark.
Counting as a theory. Bijections, symmetry, graphs, and the arithmetic of orderings.
The oldest questions, and the ones still open.
What a proof is, what a set is, and what mathematics can decide about itself.
Reading
5 titles from the library sit on this branch.
All one hundred and twenty items, treated from first principles. Every concept developed in full — no step assumed, no result quoted without its reason.
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.
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.
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.
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.