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Summary: The best mathematics for economists book ever written
Review: The text is a phenomenon. A book written not only for economists, but also for applied mathemeticians, finance professionals, and others interested in applying mathematics to economics and business problems. It provides solid math fundamentals to students of economics and finance and can easily rival any advanced calculus, linear algebra, or optimization text. Unlike lecture notes, its approach is complete and balanced. It's a text with character, flow, and content. I've read it several times.
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Summary: The best mathematics for economists book ever written
Review: The text is a phenomenon. A book written not only for economists, but also for applied mathemeticians, finance professionals, and others interested in applying mathematics to economics and business problems. It provides solid math fundamentals to students of economics and finance and can easily rival any advanced calculus, linear algebra, or optimization text. Unlike lecture notes, its approach is complete and balanced. It's a text with character, flow, and content. I've read it several times.
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Summary: IF you are doing /have done maths, read this book
Review: This book is beautiful.
clear simple explinations built up in a clear way.
1) explicitly defined Theorems
2) proofs with clear starts and ends.
3) starts at level that should be within the grasp of able A-level students
i.e. not much knowledge assumed.
4) contains goods maths followed by economic examples that use it.
5) A wellcome counterpoint to economic books and lectures that use bad maths
i) theorems with out showing the conditions are met
ii) use floating 'dx's
6)goes to a level beyond undergraduate level to give a strong powerbase.
7)Mathematics is the language of economics.
Until you are master of the relevant sections, understanding economics
will for you be like reading the Ancient Bible and not knowing hebrew.
Therefore even if yours economics degree includes maths techniques
modules, you will find yourself using maths, you have not been taught yet.
So buy this book and get on top of the maths in your course.
8)get it before you go, read it before you get to uni and then you can
spend the first few weeks partying instead of reading maths to keep on
top of your course.
9)read this book and feel like a million dollars.
10) if you have NO INTEREST IN ECONOMICS, and are doing maths get this
book and it will be a good primer on a whole heap of modules from
Linear Algebra to Analysis.
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Summary: Chiang's book is the best.
Review: This book is decent, but I think that Chiang book is better that this book, I recommend you the Chiang book, this book is only the a fundamental introduction to Math-Econ.
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Summary: Chiang's book is superior
Review: This book is decent, though nothing to rave about.The best introduction to Math-Econ is Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics by Alpha C. Chiang
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Summary: Excellent book for basic concepts
Review: This book is really excellent in the sense that it unfolds to the reader not only the logic behind the application of the mathematical tools to economics but also the fundamentals about the mathematical formulations themselves.
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Summary: Not just for economists!
Review: This is a marvellous introduction to many of the important areas of applied mathematics. The authors do a truly spectacular job of conveying the intuitive principles and pragmatic relevence of each topic, without falling into the "cookbook" trap to which many applied math texts succumb. But my real point is that it is almost a shame that title specifies "for economists" - because this book will be extremely useful to people looking to improve their applied mathematics background for use in any number of fields. I'm a population biologist myself, and I turn to this book first when I need to brush up on a vaguely familiar subject or delve in to a new topic. Many of the examples are inded drawn from economics, but this is not hindrance - they are well-enough explained and defined that no economics background is required. The economics examples are so well-presented, in fact, that the relevence to problems in other fields will be very clear to even a moderately careful reader. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is indeed an excellent book. I like it because it is not "dumbed" to fit students with a weak background in mathematics and it is not a definition-proof-theorem-and-try-to-understand-if-you-can book as many advanced books in mathematics. It is well balanced between precise definitions and good explanations, using standard notation. I have used it for self-study and helped me to learn the definitions and theorems needed to jump to more advanced books (yes, to those skinny books with only definitions, theorems and so on). Other books on mathematics for economists are either too hard to understand the first time or they hid the difficults parts.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is indeed an excellent book. I like it because it is not "dumbed" to fit students with a weak background in mathematics and it is not a definition-proof-theorem-and-try-to-understand-if-you-can book as many advanced books in mathematics. It is well balanced between precise definitions and good explanations, using standard notation. I have used it for self-study and helped me to learn the definitions and theorems needed to jump to more advanced books (yes, to those skinny books with only definitions, theorems and so on). Other books on mathematics for economists are either too hard to understand the first time or they hid the difficults parts.
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Summary: Beautifully written! The best!
Review: Very structured and easy to read as well as refer to. Commonly used for teaching at Harvard Univ.
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