<p>Hello guys,
I am planning to take intermediate microeconomics. I checked the online syllabus and it says that just math 100( calc II) or above is required. However, I also checked int. microeconomics’ first few HWs and I see that there are several questions that requires understanding of partial derivatives. So I was wondering if I have to take inter. calculus (math 180/Calc III) in order to take intermediate micro or would intermediate micro class teach multivariable contexts during first few classes? Thank you</p>
<p>Partial derivatives and gradients are something that one can easily do with just single variable calculus - there are no new techniques for finding them. The multivariate chain rule is somewhat more complicated, but if I had to guess, that’s the most complicated math you might use in ECON1110. If you’re considering 1130, that may be a different matter, though.</p>
<p>Either way, what Math 18 teaches substantially beyond what you’d need - you’d spend at most a few days on these topics. Math 18 may be useful in the long run for econ, but the material should be doable with the prerequisites.</p>
<p>APMA1650 is another course like this - the material at times uses partial derivatives and multiple integration, but it’s nothing that doesn’t follow in a straightforward fashion from calc 1 and 2.</p>
<p>thanks Uroogla! Do you think applied math 035 or 036 would require math 18 material? The description doesn’t say it is required but it says " MATH 0180 is desirable as a corequisite."</p>
<p>idk if you mean math 20 (math 36 doesn’t exist) but I’m going to assume you do. Math 18/20/35 are all forms of calc 3 (multi). math 18 is the most basic of the 3, just focusing on the methods at hand. Math 20 takes a more practical approach to the subject, applying what they’re doing to physics/engineering real-life simulations. Math 35 is proof-based multi. Easily the hardest of the 3, this class is for prospective math majors who are interested in theory rather than application.</p>
<p>oh I am sorry for confusion. I meant APMA 0350 not math 0350</p>
<p>APMA0350 and 0360 depend drastically on the professor and so change from year to year (at least, according to my APMA concentrator friends). I heavily suspect that material may be helpful for when you do partial differential equations (the wave equation and heat equation are both taught, as far as I know). However, the only APMA classes I’ve taken are 120, 165, and 166, so I don’t know for sure how much it’s needed. I think that APMA prefers/requires that you take at least math 18 and 52, if not the more advanced versions, so taking 18 might be worth it. I haven’t heard good things about it in the past few years, though.</p>