This is a work-in-progress course website for Mathematics for Economists, produced by Fan. Course covers a limited subset of topics from Mathematics for Economists (Simon and Blume 1994), and uses various definitions from the book. Matlab's symbolic toolbox is used throughout.
Materials are written in matlab livescript files and shown as HTML files. To obtain matlab codes, see here for github set up. For HTML files, click on the links below.
Please contact FanWangEcon for issues or problems.
- Real Number and intervals
- What is a Function?
- Function Notations
- Interval Notations and Examples
- Monomial and Polynomial
- Local and Global Maximum
- Derivative Definition and Rules
- Continuity and Differentiability
- Elasticity and Derivative
- First Order Taylor Approximation
- Higher Order Derivatives--Cobb Douglas Production
- Marginal Product Discrete Units of Workers
- Derivative of Cobb-Douglas Production Function
- Derivative Approximation and Cobb-Douglas Function
- Optimal Savings Choice in a 2 period Model with initial Wealth
- Optimal Borrowing Choice Firm Maximization
- System of Linear Equations
- Solving for Two Equations and Two Unknowns
- System of Linear Equations, Row Echelon Form