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Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis
Were you looking for the book with access to MyMathLab Global? This product is the book alone and does NOT come with access to MyMathLab Global. Buy Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis, 5th edition, with MyMathLab Global access card (ISBN 9781292074719) if you need access to MyMathLab Global as well, and save money on this resource. You will also need a course ID from your instructor to access MyMathLab Global. ESSENTIAL MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Fifth Edition An extensive introduction to all the mathematical tools an economist needs is provided in this worldwide bestseller. “The scope of the book is to be applauded” Dr Michael Reynolds, University of Bradford “Excellent book on calculus with several economic applications” Mauro Bambi, University of York New to this Knut Sydsaeter was Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the Economics Department at the University of Oslo, where he had taught mathematics for economists for over 45 years. Peter Hammond is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, where he moved in 2007 after becoming an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He has taught mathematics for economists at both universities, as well as at the Universities of Oxford and Essex. Arne Strom is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and has extensive experience in teaching mathematics for economists in the Department of Economics there. Andrés Carvajal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at University of California, Davis.
832 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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Knut Sydsæter
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Knut Sydsæter, Atle Seierstad, and Arne Strøm all have extensive experience in teaching mathematics for economists in the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. With Peter Berck at Berkeley, Knut Sydsæter and Arne Strøm have written a widely used formula book, Economists’ Mathematical Manual (Springer, 2005). The 1987 North-Holland book Optimal Control Theory for Economists by Atle Seierstad and Knut Sydsæter is still a standard reference in the field.
Visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/sydsaeter to access the supplementary resources for this text including a new Student’s Manual with extended answers broken down step by step to selected problems in the text.
Knut Sydsæter, Atle Seierstad, and Arne Strøm all have extensive experience in teaching mathematics for economists in the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. With Peter Berck at Berkeley, Knut Sydsæter and Arne Strøm have written a widely used formula book, Economists’ Mathematical Manual (Springer, 2005). The 1987 North-Holland book Optimal Control Theory for Economists by Atle Seierstad and Knut Sydsæter is still a standard reference in the field.
Visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/sydsaeter to access the supplementary resources for this text including a new Student’s Manual with extended answers broken down step by step to selected problems in the text.
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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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