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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Mathematics B

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 151-0401/04
Abbreviation MBKS
Course title Mathematics B
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Marian Genčev, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

I. Systems of linear equations and analytic geometry
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- basic concepts,
- Gaussian elimination, Frobenius' theorem,
- Cramer's rule,
- use of systems of linear equations for determining the mutual position of
- two planes in E3,
- two lines in E2 and E3,
- plane and a line in E3
- basic applications in economics



II. Integral calculus
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Indefinite integral
- definition and properties,
- basic integration formulas and rules,
- per partes, substitution,
- integration of rational functions (partial fractions),
- basic applications in economics

Definite integral
- the problem of calculating the area of a region bounded by continuous curves
- definitions a properties of the definite integral,
- Newton-Leibniz' formula,
- basic applications in economics

Generalized and improper integral
- improper integral of the first and second kind,
- Gaussian integral (for information only),
- calculating improper integrals by limits,
- generalized definite integrals (the case of discontinuous functions),
- basic applications in economics and connection with statistics


III. Functions of two real variables
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- definitions of basic concepts,
- domain and its visualization,
- homogeneous functions of order 's',
- partial derivatives and their geometric interpretation
- tangent plane,
- total differential, differentiable functions, approximations of number expressions,
- local extremes,
- constrained local extremes
- method of substitution,
- Lagrange's multiplier,
- basic applications in economics



IV. Ordinary differential equations (ODE)
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- definition of ODE,
- order of ODE,
- solution of ODE (general, particular, singular, extraordinary),
- basic types of first-order ODE's
- separated,
- separable,
- linear first-order DE (variation of constants),
- second-order linear DE with constant coefficients and special right-hand side (undetermined coefficients),
- basic applications in economics



V. Difference calculus and difference equations
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Introduction to difference calculus
- difference of order 'k',
- basic formulas and rules for calculating the differences,
- the sign of the first-order difference as the indicator of the sequence monotonicity,
- the sign of the second-order difference as the indicator of the sequence monotonicity dynamics,
- relation of summation and difference

Ordinary difference equations (ODifE)
- definition of the ODifE
- order of the ODifE
- solution of the ODifE (general, particular)
- first- and second-order ODifE with constant coefficients and special right-hand side (undetermined coefficients)
- basic applications in economics

Literature

LARSON, Ron a David C. FALVO. Elementary linear algebra. 6th ed. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Cengage Lerning, 2010. ISBN 978-0-495-82923-2.
TAN, Soo Tang. Multivariable calculus. International ed. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, 2010. ISBN 978-0-495-83150-1.
HOY, Michael, LIVERNOIS, John Richard and MCKENNA, C. J. Mathematics for economics. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. ISBN 9780262046626 .

Advised literature

STEWART, James. Calculus: metric version. Eighth edition. [Boston]: Cengage Learning, [2016]. ISBN 978-1-305-26672-8.