UPSC Maths Optional Book

The recommended books for Maths Optional Paper 1 and Paper 2 respectively for each module are as follows :

Maths Paper 1

1. LINEAR ALGEBRA
   • SCHAUM SERIES – Seymour Lipschutz
   • LINEAR ALGEBRA – Hoffman and Kunze
2. CALCULUS
   • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS – S C Malik and Savita Arora
   • ELEMENTS OF REAL ANALYSIS – Shanti Narayan and M D Raisinghania
3. ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
   • ANALYTICAL SOLID GEOMETRY – Shanti Narayan and P K Mittal
   • SOLID GEOMETRY – P N Chatterjee
4. ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (ODE)
   • ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS – M D Raisinghania
5. DYNAMICS AND STATICS
   • KRISHNA SERIES
6. VECTOR ANALYSIS
   • SCHAUM SERIES – Murray R. Spiegel

Maths Paper 2

1. ALGEBRA – CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ALGEBRA – Joseph Gallian
2. REAL ANALYSIS – SAME AS CALCULUS OF PAPER 1
3. COMPLEX ANALYSIS
   • SCHAUM SERIES – Speigel, Lipschitz, Schiller, Spellman
4. LINEAR PROGRAMMING
   • LINEAR PROGRAMMING AND GAME THEORY – Lakshmishree Bandopadhyay
5. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
   • SAME AS ODE OF PAPER 1
   • ADVANCED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS – M D Raisinghania
6. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
   • For Numerical Analysis
     • COMPUTER BASED NUMERICAL AND STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES – M.Goyal
     • NUMERICAL METHODS – Jain, Iyengar and Jain
   • FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
     • DIGITAL LOGIC AND COMPUTER DESIGN – M. Morris Mano
7. MECHANICS AND FLUID DYNAMICS
   • KRISHNA SERIES

Why Choose UPSC Maths Optional for UPSC IAS Exam?

There are certain factors that work in your favour if you take math as your optional subject for the IAS exam. Let’s look at the general advantages one can have by taking maths as his/ her optional subject.

Scoring

Mathematics is one of the most scoring subjects in the school level, graduation or even the UPSC IAS exam. If one is prepared enough and has written the right answer, there is no scope of getting marks deducted in this subject.

Direct Questions

UPSC maths optional questions are direct type. Most of those are given from the textbooks. Anybody who is prepared well will find those questions to be easy to medium on the difficulty level.

Static

UPSC maths optional syllabus is static. It is not related to current affairs or news thus does not need frequent updating. One just needs to finish the syllabus and prepare that very well.

Conclusion

Hopefully, this list of UPSC maths optional books will help you prepare better for the UPSC maths optional syllabus. For more informative posts on this and UPSC maths optional question papers and other UPSC IAS exam-related informative posts, keep an eye on this page. Do share your feedback by commenting in the below box.