BMAT 17A03 - Mathematics applied to quantitative social sciences – Advanced 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 advanced level will cover the following topics: basic operations, functions, equations & inequalities, constrained optimization, integration, real sequences and mathematical induction, vector spaces and linear maps, matrices and linear systems solving

Enseignants

Charlemagne NIKIEMA

Type

Séminaire

Language of tuition

English

Semester

Autumn 2024-2025

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.)