BMAT 17A01 - Mathematics applied to quantitative social sciences – Introductory level

Course Description

Taught over 12 sessions, this course aims at providing students with the mathematical foundations needed to support notions taught in the first-year introduction to economics course, and more generally, quantitative methods in social sciences. This course places emphasis on practice, with progressive exercises and case studies, so that students can gain autonomy quickly with the taught themes. The introductory level will cover the following topics: basic operations, functions, basic functions, Equations & inequalities and constrained optimization

Enseignants

Federico MERLI,Nhat Minh TRAN,Chung Shue CHEN

Type

Séminaire

Language of tuition

English

Semester

Autumn 2023-2024

Course validation

Continuous examination and final exam

Lectures conseillées / Recommended readings

Lectures principales / Main readings

Mathematics for Economists, Carl P. Simon, Lawrence Blume (see the PDF: http://www.repetitfind.ru/Literature/subjects/Blume-Mathematics-for-Economists.pdf)

Disponible / Available

Lectures secondaires / Main readings

CORE-ECON (see Leibniz exercises: for example, 3.x/4.4.1/6.7.1/8.6.2/10.3.1 for partial derivatives and optimization, 3.7.1/8.4.2/9.8.1 for equations, 8.5.1 for integration, etc.)