Mathematics for Social Scientists

MSc course

This course provides students with the mathematical foundations, both in language and in concepts, needed to apply quantitative and computational methods in the social sciences.

Schedule

	slides
1: Preliminaries
2: Algebra Review, Modular Arithmetic, Boolean Algebra
3: Functions & Relations, Sequences & Series, Limits & Continuity
4: Calculus Fundamentals: Differentiation
5: Calculus Fundamentals: The Integral
6: Extrema in One Dimension
7: Introduction to Probability
8: Discrete Distributions
9: Continuous Distributions
10: Introduction Linear Algebra
11: Vector Spaces and Systems of Equations
12: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
13: Multivariate Calculus & Optimization
14: Multivariate Calculus & Constrained Optimization