151-0300 – Mathematics A (Mat A)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Subject guarantorRNDr. Pavel Rucki, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduate
Subject version
Version codeYear of introductionYear of cancellationCredits
151-0300/01 1999/2000 2009/2010 4
151-0300/02 2009/2010 2009/2010 4
151-0300/03 2010/2011 2017/2018 5
151-0300/04 2018/2019 5

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Knowledge • Define the function of one variable. • Find the domain and range and basic properties. • Draw graphs of elementary functions. • Compute limits and derivates of functions. • Find the properties of no elementary functions a draw theirs graphs. • Obtain easier imagine about economic functions. Comprehension • Express economic dependences using a mathematical function. • Explain the slope of a function. • Restate the terms “concavity” and “convexity” into the “degressive” and “progressive”. • Generalise the functions on the dependences in the real live. Applications • Relate economic and mathematical functions. • Discover the tools suitable for describing of dependences in economics and other sciences. • Develop the technique of graphs drawing.

Teaching methods

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Summary

Taught in Czech. The subject continues fulfilling general methodical and professional goals of Mathematics, i.e. to train the rational thinking and the ability to conceive and work with quantitative information concerning the real world. This is being done especially by mathematization of the practical as well as theoretical economic problems. This subject supplies the students’ education with realms of higher Mathematics which is applicable namely to the creation and investigation of economic models.

Compulsory literature:

[1] SYDSAETER, K., HAMMOND, P. J. Mathematics for Economics Analysis. Pearson, 2002, ISBN 978-81-7758104-1. [2] HOY, M., LIVERNOIS, J., MCKENNA, Ch., REES, R., STENGOS, T. Mathematics for Economics. The MIT Press, London, 3rd edition, 2011, ISBN 978-0-262-01507-3. [3] TAN, T.S. Single variable calculus: early transcendentals. Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, Belmont, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4390-4600-5.

Recommended literature:

[1] LUDERER, B., NOLLAU, V., VETTERS, K. Mathematical Formulas for Economists. Springer Verlag, 3rd edition, 2006, ISBN 978-3540469018. [2] HOY, M., LIVERNOIS, J., MCKENNA, Ch., REES, R., STENGOS, T. Mathematics for Economics. The MIT Press, London, 3rd edition, 2011, ISBN 978-0-262-01507-3.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.