Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis

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Contents

PREFACE

1. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS I: ALGEBRA
2. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS II: EQUATIONS
3. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS III: MISCELLANEOUS
4. FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE
5. PROPERTIES OF FUNCTIONS
6. DIFFERENTIATION
7. DERIVATIVES IN USE
8. SINGLE-VARIABLE OPTIMIZATION
9. INTEGRATION
10. INTEREST RATES AND PRESENT VALUES
11. FUNCTIONS OF MANY VARIABLES
12. TOOLS FOR COMPARATIVE STATICS
13. MULTIVARIABLE OPTIMIZATION
14. CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION
15. MATRIX AND VECTOR ALGEBRA
16. DETERMINANTS AND INVERSE MATRICES
17. LINEAR PROGRAMMING

APPENDIX: GEOMETRY, THE GREEK ALPHABET, ANSWERS ODD-NUMBERED PROBLEMS
INDEX

Features

• Mathematical rigour and a strong focus on mathematical reasoning.
• Large selection of worked examples throughout the book.