180.000 Math Camp for
First-Year Graduate Students
Summer 2009: Aug 17-28,
Announcement:
8/26: PS3 has been revised.
8/25: PS3 is posted.
8/17: Class on Aug 27 (Thursday) will be cancelled, so that you may attend orientations. To make it up, classes on M-W of that week will run from 10-12:30.
8/15: PS2 is posted.
8/11: Syllabus has been updated. Problem set 1 is posted.
Appendix A in Greene (2003)
Concave and Quasi-concave functions
Problem Sets
The following notes were
written by Chris Geiregat (a former student here). Note that there are some
minor errors.
Chapter 1. PROOFS, BASIC CONCEPTS, SOME PROBABILITY THEORY.
(265 KB)
Chapter 2. MATRICES AND LINEAR SYSTEMS. (299 KB)
Chapter 3. UNIVARIATE FUNCTIONS. (195 KB)
Chapter 4. MULTIVARIATE FUNCTIONS. (298 KB)
Chapter 5. STATIC OPTIMIZATION. (498 KB)
Chapter 6. DYNAMIC MODELS (1): DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. (207
KB)
References. (21 KB)
A
detailed list of topics in the notes. (4 KB)