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Bachelor 2023/2024

Mathematics for Economists

Area of studies: Economics
When: 2 year, 2-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Language: English
ECTS credits: 10
Contact hours: 154

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Mathematics for Economists is a two-semester course for the second year students studying at ICEF. It is designed for all specializations at ICEF but for the “Mathematics and Economics” specialization the students of which follow a different course ‘”Mathematical Methods for Economists”. This course is an important part of the bachelor stage in education of the future economists. It has to give students skills for implementation of the mathematical knowledge and expertise to the problems of economics. Its prerequisite is the knowledge of the single variable calculus.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Students are supposed: to acquire knowledge in the field of higher mathematics and become ready to analyze simulated as well as real economic situations;
  • to develop ability to apply the knowledge of the differential and difference equations which will enable them to analyze dynamics of the processes.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Apply IFT to microeconomic and macroeconomic problems
  • Apply the notion of level curve to microeconomics
  • Be able to find a limit of a function at a point
  • Be able to handle derivatives
  • Classify the sets in n-dimensional space
  • Explain and apply gradient and related directional derivative
  • Find derivatives of implicit functions
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Multi-dimensional calculus
  • Optimization
  • Differential and difference equations
  • Methods of optimization
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking exam final
  • non-blocking home assignments sem 2
  • non-blocking home assignments sem 1
  • non-blocking exam intermediate
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 2nd module
    0.7 * exam intermediate + 0.3 * home assignments sem 1
  • 2023/2024 4th module
    0.65 * exam final + 0.35 * home assignments sem 2
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Mathematics for economists, Simon, C. P., 1994

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Сборник задач и упражнений по математическому анализу : учеб. пособие для вузов, Демидович, Б. П., 2003

Authors

  • Bukin Kirill Aleksandrovich