Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

Grab a pen and draw a figure. Follow a few rules: keep your lines straight, don’t pick up your pen, don’t cross the lines, and finish at the spot where you started. You’ll have a polygon. Polygons are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We derive a formula for an n-th order divided difference of the inverse of a function. The formula has a simple and surprising structure: it ...

Historical problems related to cycloids form the background for an investigation of paths traced by rolling regular polygons. Using trigonometry, geometry, and calculus, the lengths of and areas under ...