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Mathematics for Economics and Finance Methods and Modelling

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Authors

Martin Anthony
, London School of Economics and Political Science,
Norman Biggs
, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published 1996

Description

Mathematics has become indispensable in the modelling of economics, finance, business and management. Without expecting any particular background of the reader, this book covers the following mathematical topics, with frequent reference to applications in economics and finance: functions, graphs and equations, recurrences (difference equations), differentiation, exponentials and logarithms, optimisation, partial differentiation, optimisation in several variables, vectors and matrices, linear equations, Lagrange multipliers, integration, first-order and second-order differential equations. The stress is on the relation of maths to economics, and this…

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Key features

  • Authors have been teaching this at LSE for several years
  • Very broad coverage of topics
  • No mathematical fudging yet clear presentation
  • Suitable for both maths and economics backgrounds

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