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General Information

For the academic year 2015/2016, I am one of the Teaching Assistants for the module EC123: Mathematical Techniques B lectured by Dr. Dennis Novy.
Seminars Timetable
Academic Weeks Conversion
Weeks: 3-10, 30
Class 10
Day: Tuesday
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 AM
Room: S0.28
​Class 20
Day: Wednesday 
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 AM 
​Room: H2.44
​Class 25
Day: Tuesday 
Time: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM 
​Room: H5.45
Office Hours
For date and time, please send an email beforehand so we can arrange a meeting.
Room: B2.39, Mathematics Institute - Zeeman Building
Requests
If you have any special requests, like a particular exercise or topic, please send me an e-mail by Friday of the week before the seminars.
Feedback
Socrative Student Link. You need to enter the room number given during the second seminar.

Exercise Sheets

As a general policy, you should never trust and you should always question what I write or link. If you find any mistake, please drop me an e-mail ;-).
Main tools for the exercises
​​Module resources
​Function plotter softwares: Grapher (it is preinstalled on every Mac), Microsoft Mathematics
Online tools: ​Function Plotter and Derivatives Calculator (by Wolfram|Alpha)
1) One-variable Optimization
​     Problem Set
​     ​Additional Resources: Derivative Test, Differentiation Rules, First Derivative Test (Video), Second Derivative Test (Video), Sign of Derivative ​     ​​     ​                             (contains lots of ads)
2) Calculus of functions of many variables
​     ​Problem Set
​​     ​Additional Resources: L'Hopital's Rule (Video)
3) Multivariate Optimization
​     ​Problem Set
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6) Constrained Optimization
​     ​​​Problem Set
​     ​​​Additional Resources: Lagrange Multipliers in Microeconomic Theory (.ppt Slides)
7)
     ​​Problem Set
8)
     ​​Problem Set
9) Review
     ​​Exercises

Final Seminar Pictures

Available on Request:
Class 10
Class 20
Class 25
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