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I will be available for your questions more or less at any time these last days before the exam. Feel free to ask.
About the exam: Remember that you are allowed to bring all books, notes, and other written or printed matter with you, and pocket calculators too. It's not a good idea to try to save paper on the exam (save your environmentalism for the Xmas shopping instead! :)) . It is so much easier to read your papers if you allow yourself to write legibly and leave some white space between your paragraphs. (If we cannot read what you have written, we assume that it is wrong!)
OUCH! Sorry for missing this lecture.
I will shorten down the treatment of the elasticities in order to be able to conclude on Monday.
I have put up a note out on term paper 2.
As for Taylor's formula, today's lecture has also covered material from FMEA pp 79--80 (MA1 pp 464--465) in addition the references given in the lecture schedule. We will conclude on Taylor's formula on Wednesday.
I've put up a note on the solution to the linear programming example that was not completed in Wednesday's lecture. On Monday, I'll spend (hopefully only) a few minutes on it before proceeding.
Ouch, I forgot to put up a problem set for the final seminar on Monday. It will be up in a few minutes -- please disregard the date saying 2006.
Thank you to the student who gave me a notice on this.
Next Monday, the usual time and place, there will be an extraordinary lecture on the term paper problem set. No new material will be covered.
Also, in order for the problems to catch up with the lectures, I assign the following homework problem for next week: EMEA 9.8.6 (MA I: 10.10.9), and exam problems 21, 134, 105, 28. This problem set will not be reviewed in any seminar, but there will be a solution available.
Just in case anyone is interested in the finance bits and pieces on the mathematics of finance: Wikipedia's articles on the Ito formula and Black-Scholes give you a brief overview of the mathematical tools. Oh by the way: I should have mentioned that the comments on LCTM included a grossly exaggregated sarcasm.
To those of you who were not attending today's lecture: no, the above is absolutely not relevant to this course's curriculum, it was rather an anecdote on differential equations, before we start on something completely different on Wednesday.