I needed this book for a math econ class. It is easy to follow its step by step approach most of the time, although occasionally the book rushes through difficult parts without adequate explanation. Generally though, a total beginner can pick up this book and finish with quite a bit of mathematical knowledge, from linear algebra to single and multi-variable calculus as well as important topics in economics like optimization. I highly recommend ths book. However, I would make some changes to it- there are not enough answers to homework problems for the students to check and verify that they are progressing fine with the material. In fact, some sections only have 2-3 answers, so you don't know if you got the hard stuff down unless your professor assigns that problem and corrects it for you. A solution would be for Alpha Chiang to provide test bank software that would give an immediate right/wrong answer, and if there is a wrong answer, the software would provide step-by-step solutions to help understand. I say this because some of the problems are really arcane, and I recommend any user of this book to write to the publisher with a similar recommendation, in order to improve the students' experience with this book.Read full review
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book very well written for someone new to math-eco.
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I bought the book for a Mathematical Economics class and so far its what I need. Moderately easy to understand. The only thing is the separate answer key is full of wrong answers. But it doesnt come with the book so.......
Overall, this book is fairly user-friendly. The text is concise and gives a basic understanding of mathematical concepts relating to economics. However, I would like to see more proofs, and more importantly, I wish that there were solutions given to every work problem given in each section.
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