Department of Economics Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi
Minutes of Meeting
Subject : B.A. (Hons) Economics, First Semester
Course : Mathematical Methods for Economics I (HC11) Date : August 14th, 2019
Venue : Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Chair : Prof. Abhijit Banerji
The meeting was attended by the following teachers:
Sl. No. Name of the Teacher College
1 Arun Kumar Kaushal Shaheed Bhagat Singh College
2 Pawan Kumar Ramjas College
3 Nidhi Khandelwal Garg Kirori Mal College
4 Sandhya Varshney DSC
5 Indranil Chowdhury PGDAV (M) College
6 Ankit Joshi Sri Venkateswara College
7 Iti Tomar SPM College
8 Harpreet Kaur SGGSCC
9 Deepak Manchanda JDMC
10 Ranjan Swarnakar ARSD College
11 Akanksha Aggarwal JMC
12 N. Shradha Varma Maitreyi College
13 Anjali Bansal Kalindi College
14 Niti Bhutani Hindu College
15 Abhishek St. Stephen’s College
16 Nidhi DCAC
17 Parul Gupta LSR College
18 Niti Bhutani Hindu College
19 Harish Dhawan Aryabhatta College
The members agreed on the following:
1. The Reading List for the course was fixed. Chapters 1 to 9 (in their entirety), and Chapters 12 to 14 with the following exclusions comprise the reading list. Exclusions: 13.3
(determinants of order n), 14.4 (eigenvalues), 14.5 (diagonalization), 14.6 (spectral theorem for symmetric matrices).
2. The 4 Units of the course will carry the following weights:
Unit I (preliminaries): 10%.
Unit 2 (functions of one real variable): 45%.
Unit 3 (single-variable optimization): 20%.
Unit 4 (linear algebra): 25%.
3. There was a fairly wide-ranging discussion on a variety of issues, including the nature of the final exam.
