Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis

PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS I: ALGEBRA 2. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS II: EQUATIONS 3. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS III: MISCELLANEOUS 4. FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE 5. PROPERTIES OF FUNCTIONS 6. DIFFERENTIATION 7. DERIVATIVES IN USE 8. SINGLE-VARIABLE OPTIMIZATION 9. INTEGRATION 10. INTEREST RATES AND PRESENT VALUES 11. FUNCTIONS OF MANY VARIABLES 12. TOOLS FOR COMPARATIVE STATICS 13. MULTIVARIABLE OPTIMIZATION 14. CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION 15. MATRIX AND VECTOR ALGEBRA 16. DETERMINANTS AND INVERSE MATRICES 17. LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPENDIX: GEOMETRY, THE GREEK ALPHABET, ANSWERS ODD-NUMBERED PROBLEMS INDEX