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Mandatory Package: Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences

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Calculus is calculus, right? After all, taking a derivative or finding an integral is independent of what field that might have come from. But here Hoffmann gives the context. Broadly, it is for the social sciences. The elementary material is the same everywhere. What distinguishes the material here are the examples taken from those fields. Hopefully, it will help motivate you to understand the basic techniques.

There is also a shift here from books of earlier decades. Then, there was often less emphasis on the level of calculus needed. In part because computational resources were far less, so things might have been treated more qualitatively. Plus, in finance and economics, modelling has become very important for quants. Hence, this text also importantly discusses numerical applications, using contemporary computers.