Economics 7720: Mathematics for Economists
Department of Economics, Boston College, Fall 2026

Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30 - 11:45am
O'Neill Library, Room 257

Professor Peter Ireland
Maloney Hall, Room 338
Email: peter.ireland@bc.edu

Syllabus
Lecture Notes
Problem Sets
Exams

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Syllabus (pdf):

Syllabus

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Downloadable Lecture Notes (pdf):

The Kuhn-Tucker and Envelope Theorems

Additional Slides on Berge's Maximum Theorem


The Maximum Principle

Excel Spreadsheet for Solving the Discrete-Time Ramsey Model


Dynamic Programming


Euler Equations and Transversality Conditions

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Problem Sets (pdf/tex):

Problem Set 1 (pdf)
Problem Set 1 (tex)

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Exams (pdf/tex):

Complete Set of Exams From 1999 Through 2025

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All of these course materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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