ECON 5153 MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
Fall 2009
Professor Qihong Liu
E-mail: qliu at ou dot edu
Office: Hester Hall, Room 312
Phone: 325-5846
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-2:30pm, and by appointment
TA: Hojin Jung. Office: Hester Hall 207. E-mail: Hojin.Jung-1@ou.edu. Office hours: Friday, 9:30-11am.
Announcements:
- 11/19: Problem set 7 is posted, due Tuesday 12/08.
- 11/10: Solution to problem set 6 is posted.
- 11/10: Class schedule change - Per class discussion, we will not have class on Tuesday, 11/24 of the Thanksgiving week. Instead, we will have an extra class on Friday, 11/13, from 11am-12:15pm.
- 11/05: pratice exam for exam 2 is posted.
- 11/03: Problem set 6 is posted, due Tuesday 11/10 at 4:30pm.
Course Syllabus:
Problem Sets
- Problem set: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
- Solution: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Lecture Notes
- Chapter 1: Introduction.
- Chapter 2: One-Variable Calculus.
This Chapter corresponds to Chapters 2-5 in Simon and Blume. You should go through these chapters there. We will skip the basics in class. In particular, you are expected to self-study the following in the lecture notes: Section 1 (except section 1.4), Section 2 and Section 5.
- Chapter 3: Linear Algebra.
This Chapter corresponds to Chapters 6-11, 26 in Simon and Blume, and Chapters 1-3 in Turkington.
- Chapter 4: Functions of Several Variables.
Sections 1.1 and 3.1 in the notes are mainly for self-reading, and we will cover them only briefly in class.
This Chapter corresponds to Chapters 12-15, 29-30 in Simon and Blume and Chapter 6 in Turkington (Introduction to matrix calculus).
- Chapter 5: Optimization.
This Chapter corresponds to Chapters 16-22 in Simon and Blume.
- Chapter 6: Dynamics.
This Chapter corresponds to Chapters 23-24 and some of Chapter 25 in Simon and Blume, Chapters 9-11 in Turkington, Chapters 15-20 in Chiang and Wainwright.
- Chapter 7: Other Topics.
This chapters contains a brief introduction on integration (based on Markus Mobius' Math Econ notes at Harvard), and various theorems on continuous and differentiable functions.
Previous exams
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