MATHEMATICS
Course unit partition: Cognomi L-Z

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie (SECS-S/06)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Base
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
10 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Course unit partition: MATHEMATICS

Learning objectives

<p>The aim of the course is to provide basic mathematical knowledge, so that the student is able to model economic problems and to use properly the basic quantitative tools for their analysis.</p>
<p>At the end of the course the student should be able to single out the structure of an economic problem and to propose a management solution. The student will be able to read a graph and to take proper information from tables and structure basic Internet data. Moreover the student should be able to build a simple mathematical model to solve micro and macro-economic problems.</p>

Prerequisites

<p>First and second order equations and inequalities.</p>

Course unit content

<p>Linear functions and models.</p>
<p>Linear equations systems and matrices. Economic applications.</p>
<p>Non-linear models.</p>
<p>The derivative. Economic applications.</p>
<p>The integral. Economic applications.</p>
<p>Functions in several variables.</p>

Full programme

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Bibliography

S. Waner, S. R. Costenoble, Strumenti quantitativi per la gestione aziendale, Apogeo, Milan, 2006.

Teaching methods

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