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Duration

7 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Advanced

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Credential

Certificate

Logic for Economists
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Logic for Economists
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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
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  • Advanced Level
  • Approx. 7 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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Logic for Economists
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  • This course provides a very brief introduction to basic mathematical concepts like propositional and predicate logic, set theory, the number system, and proof techniques. At the end of the course, students will be able to
  • (1) detect the logical structure behind simple puzzles
  • (2) be able to manipulate logical expressions
  • (3) explain the connection between logic and set theory
  • (4) explain the differences between natural, integer, rational, real and complex numbers
  • (5) recognise different basic proof techniques

Logic for Economists
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Curriculum

Introduction

Why logic for economists?

The building blocks

Basic operations

De Morgan's laws

The Lady or the Tiger?

Logical knots

Basic transformations

De Morgan's laws

The Lady or the Tiger?

Predicate logic

Predicate logic and set notation

Functions and their graphs

Onto and one-to-one

Predicate logic and set theory

About functions

Numbers

The natural numbers

The other numbers

Questions about numbers

Proofs

Proof techniques

Final Test

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