TY - BOOK ID - 835871 TI - Mathematical methods for economic theory PY - 1999 VL - 9-10 SN - 3540662359 3540662421 3642085520 3662085445 9783540662358 9783540662426 PB - Berlin Springer DB - UniCat KW - Mathematics KW - Economics, Mathematical KW - Economics, Mathematical. KW - Economic theory. KW - Applied mathematics. KW - Engineering mathematics. KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. KW - Applications of Mathematics. KW - Engineering KW - Engineering analysis KW - Mathematical analysis KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Economics KW - Mathematical economics KW - Econometrics KW - Methodology KW - Mathématiques économiques KW - Économie politique KW - Modèles mathématiques UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:835871 AB - This is the second of a two-volume work intended to function as a textbook well as a reference work for economic for graduate students in economics, as scholars who are either working in theory, or who have a strong interest in economic theory. While it is not necessary that a student read the first volume before tackling this one, it may make things easier to have done so. In any case, the student undertaking a serious study of this volume should be familiar with the theories of continuity, convergence and convexity in Euclidean space, and have had a fairly sophisticated semester's work in Linear Algebra. While I have set forth my reasons for writing these volumes in the preface to Volume 1 of this work, it is perhaps in order to repeat that explanation here. I have undertaken this project for three principal reasons. In the first place, I have collected a number of results which are frequently useful in economics, but for which exact statements and proofs are rather difficult to find; for example, a number of results on convex sets and their separation by hyperplanes, some results on correspondences, and some results concerning support functions and their duals. Secondly, while the mathematical top ics taken up in these two volumes are generally taught somewhere in the mathematics curriculum, they are never (insofar as I am aware) done in a two-course sequence as they are arranged here. ER -