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YORK UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

ECON 1530: Mathematics for Economists I


Fall 2024

APPROXIMATE LECTURE SCHEDULE AND STUDY PLAN

Date Description Textbook Coverage


Week 1 Single-Variable Differentiation • Ch 6: 1-4
• Slopes of Curves
• Tangents and Derivatives
• Increasing and Decreasing Functions
• Economic Applications
Week 2 Single-Variable Differentiation Continued (a) • Ch 6: 5-8
• A Dash of Limits
• Simple Rules for Differentiation
• Sums, Products and Quotients
• Chain Rule
Week 3 Single-Variable Differentiation Continued (b) • Ch 6: 9-10, 4.9
• Higher-Order Derivatives
• Exponential Functions
Week 4 Logarithmic Functions • Ch 6: 11, 4:10, 7:1-2
• Implicit Differentiation
• Economic examples
Week 5 More on Differentiation • Ch 7: 3-7, 5:3
• Inverse functions
• Linear Approximations,
• Polynomial Approximations
• Taylor Series
Elasticities
Week 6 Infinite Sequences and l’Hopital’s Rule • Ch 7: 8-12
• Infinite Sequences
• L’Hopital’s Rule–
More on Limits
• Intermediate value theorem
Continuity

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Week 7 Concave and convex functions • Ch.8

Week 8 Single Variable Optimization • Ch 9: 1-3


• Simple Tests for Extreme Points
• Economic Examples
• Further Economic Examples
Week 9 Single Variable Optimization - Continued • Ch 9: 4-6
• Local Extreme Points
• Extreme and mean value theorems
Week 10 Integration Continued • Ch 10: 1-4
• Area and Definite Integrals
• Indefinite Integrals
• Properties of Definite Integrals
• Economic Applications
Week 11 Further Topics in Integration • Ch 10: 5-7
• Improper Integrals
• Integration by Parts
• Integration by Substitution
Week 12 Topics in Finance • Ch 10: 1-6
• Interest Compounding
• Geometric Series
• Present Value
• Total Present Value
• Mortgage Repayments

• The above schedule may change slightly as the term progresses. Please check the course website for more information regarding the
lecture notes, midterm tests and final exam coverage. The midterm tests cover all material from the first class up to and including the class
prior to the midterm. The final exam covers all course material.

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