This textbook has been designed to meet the requirements of the undergraduate students in mathematics of all the Indian universities. This textbook has been designed to meet the requirements of the undergraduate students in mathematics of all the Indian universities. The material presented in this volume can be comfortably covered in one semester. The content has been tested in the classrooms by several teachers over the past four decades and the book has been well received by the student community. This volume is being followed by companion title Integral Calculus.
S Arumugam PhD is currently Senior Professor (research) and Director, National Centre for Advanced Research in Mathematics, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, India. He has completed 50 years of academic life and written 30 books, including two textbooks in Tamil. He has organized 27 conferences and workshops and edited 12 proceedings. He has guided 44 PhD scholars and published around 250 papers in national and international journals. His areas of research interest are graph theory and applications, biological networks, social networks, visual cryptography and topological projective planes. He has served as visiting/adjunct/conjoint professor in several universities in Australia, UK and USA. He has visited more than 20 countries for delivering invited talks at conferences. He is the founder editor-in-chief of AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics. A Somasundaram PhD is currently Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science–Pilani, Dubai campus. He has 22 years of experience in teaching and research in mathematics. Areas of his research interest include fuzzy graphs, domination in graphs and network science. He has to his credit several papers publshed in standard international journals. He is also a coauthor of five textbooks. A Thangapandi Isaac is former Professor, Department of Mathematics, St John’s College, Palayamkottai, and has 30 years of experience in teaching. He is also coauthor of around 20 books along with S Arumugam.
