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Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis
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This title can be supported by MyMathLab Global , an online homework and tutorial system which can be used by students for self-directed study or fully integrated into an instructor's course. You can benefit from MyMathLab Global at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access card for MyMathLab Global : Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis with MyMathLab Global access card, 4/e (ISBN 9780273787624). Alternatively, buy access online at www. MyMathLab Global .com.
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714 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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July 5, 2012
This is an excellent undergraduate calculus textbook for non maths students, which manages to be rigorous while mantaining and engaging style. It assumes very little in terms of pre-requisites, and indeed the first five chapters allow students to catch up on pre-calculus material (including factoring of polynomials, equations and inequalities and functions).
It is packed with exercises, with solutions available either at the end of the book or in the student's manual, and there is also a companion website to keep you entartained with multiple choice questions divided by chapter (you will get immediate feedback for them - however these should be meant as a quick check of your comprehension, as nothing substitutes sweating through the exercises in the textbook).
If you are an instructor, there are plenty more thoughtful exercises in the instructor's manual. In terms of coverage, it is almost perfect for students in economics, as it covers static optimisation (unconstrained, constrained with both equality and inequality constraints), a bit of linear algebra and linear programming. No dynamic optimization here, as for that you will need Further Mathematics for Economic Analysis.
Be warned however: this is not a mathematical economics textbook, but a text of the maths needed for economics and the social sciences. So there are a number of economic applications (e.g. cost functions and profit functions are used in exercises, and you are shown the connection between logarithmic derivatives and elasticity), but this in not a "baby" version of e.g. Foundations of Mathematical Economics.
It is packed with exercises, with solutions available either at the end of the book or in the student's manual, and there is also a companion website to keep you entartained with multiple choice questions divided by chapter (you will get immediate feedback for them - however these should be meant as a quick check of your comprehension, as nothing substitutes sweating through the exercises in the textbook).
If you are an instructor, there are plenty more thoughtful exercises in the instructor's manual. In terms of coverage, it is almost perfect for students in economics, as it covers static optimisation (unconstrained, constrained with both equality and inequality constraints), a bit of linear algebra and linear programming. No dynamic optimization here, as for that you will need Further Mathematics for Economic Analysis.
Be warned however: this is not a mathematical economics textbook, but a text of the maths needed for economics and the social sciences. So there are a number of economic applications (e.g. cost functions and profit functions are used in exercises, and you are shown the connection between logarithmic derivatives and elasticity), but this in not a "baby" version of e.g. Foundations of Mathematical Economics.
April 2, 2022
Very useful resource for a basic Math for Econs module. Explains concepts not elaborated on in class well.
December 31, 2024
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Reaffirms my hunch that econs textbooks are the best place to learn applied math save vector calculus where physics textbook maintain comparative advantage
Reaffirms my hunch that econs textbooks are the best place to learn applied math save vector calculus where physics textbook maintain comparative advantage
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