Mathematical Formulas for Economists

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Bernd Luderer, Professor Dr. Volker Nollau, Dr. Klaus Vetters (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present collection of formulas has been composed for students of economics or management science at universities, colleges and trade schools. It contains basic knowledge in mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a compact and clearly arranged form. This volume is meant to be a reference work to be used by students of undergraduate courses together with a textbook, and by researchers in need of exact statements of mathematical results. People dealing with practical or applied problems will also find this collection to be an efficient and easy-to-use work of reference.

✦ Table of Contents

Mathematical Symbols and Constants....Pages 1-2
Sets and Propositions....Pages 3-8
Number Systems and their Arithmetic....Pages 9-18
Combinatorial Analysis....Pages 19-20
Sequences and Series....Pages 21-30
Mathematics of Finance....Pages 31-44
Functions of one Independent Variable....Pages 45-60
Functions of one Variable: Differential Calculus....Pages 61-78
Functions of one Variable: Integral Calculus....Pages 79-90
Differential Equations....Pages 91-96
Difference Equations....Pages 97-102
Differential Calculus for Functions of Several Variables....Pages 103-114
Linear Algebra....Pages 115-128
Linear Programming. Transportation Problem....Pages 129-138
Descriptive Statistics....Pages 139-148
Calculus of Probability....Pages 149-162
Inductive Statistics....Pages 163-180

✦ Subjects

Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences