- Docente: Gian Luca Tassinari
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development (cod. 8839)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at reviewing differential calculus and and linear algebra in order to provide the students with the basic mathematical tools necessary to deal with the topics of the course Mathematical Methods and Tools.
Course contents
1 LINEAR EQUATIONS
2 LINEAR INEQUALITIES
3 SETS AND FUNCTIONS
4 QUADRATICS, INDICES AND LOGARITHMS
5 SEQUENCES AND SERIES
6 INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIATION
7 METHODS OF DIFFERENTIATION
8 MAXIMA AND MINIMA
9 EXPONENTIAL AND LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS
10 APPROXIMATIONS
11 MATRIX ALGEBRA
12 SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
13 DETERMINANTS AND QUADRATIC FORMS
Readings/Bibliography
Malcolm Pemberton and Nicholas Rau, Mathematics for Economists: An Introductory Textbook, Fourh Edition, 2016
Chapters: 1-13
Teaching methods
Blackboard
Office hours
See the website of Gian Luca Tassinari
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.