Mathematics Review for Masters of Finance Students

Anthony M. Marino

 

Lecture 1: Introductory Material

Sets

Real number System

Functions, Ordered Tuples and Product Sets

Common Functions

Introduction to Matrix Algebra

Lecture 2: Marginal Functions and the Principles of Optimization

Derivative Functions and Optimization Principles

The Average Function

Elasticity

Basic Principles of Constrained Optimization

Lecture 3: Calculus

First Order derivatives

Second Order Derivatives and Concavity

Partial Derivatives

Integration

Differentiation of an Integral

Multiple Integrals

Lecture 4: Optimization

Maximizing or Minimizing a Function of a Single Variable

Maximizing or Minimizing a Function of Many Variables

Constrained Optimization

Lecture 5: Probability Distributions

Random Variables

Probability Distributions

Discrete Random Variables

Continuous Random Variables and their Distributions

Discrete Joint Distributions

Continuous Joint Distributions

Independent Random Variables

Summary Measures

Moments of Conditional and Joint Distributions

Correlation and Covariance

Slides

L1

L2

L3

L4

L5

Recordings (Made in 2020 during the pandemic in my home office. The videos were relaunched in the spring of 2023.)

1. Module 1

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6ae98dea-17d6-4a4a-a744-afd400efdca7

2. Module 2

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3f80f775-df07-4929-b98b-afd400f014f9

3. Module 3

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fe5f8269-2548-4e3e-9182-afd401159d36

4. Module 4

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cd28aac6-013d-4074-b192-afda012098ea

5. Module 5

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=13d61626-be6f-4fb8-b7ab-afda0120d41a

6. Module 6

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=843cd12a-8cd3-47ba-a0f0-afda01215dd6

7. Module 7

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6d8f26c6-1f12-4a26-9b2e-afda0121aa0b

8. Module 8

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a8dbdf89-da4b-41b2-ba2b-afda0121d41a

9. Module 9

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cec1e7ed-c174-4a7d-ac1a-afda01222f83

10. Module 10

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5e8e0e9e-4876-4261-b98a-afda01229985

11. Module 11

https://usc-marshall-panopto-demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b506a207-07c7-4877-b19c-afda012797cc

Mapping Between Recorded Modules and Lectures

Lecture 1.1 and 1.2:  Mod 1 -4.

Lecture 2:   Mod 5 and 6.

Lecture 3:   Mod 6 and Mod 7.

Lecture 4:  Mod 8 and Mod 9.

Lecture 5: Mod 9, Mod 10, and Mod 11.