Interactive figures, definitions and checkpoint questions for the six lectures of the Master in Finance mathematics course.
Review times include the figures and the checkpoint questions. Checkpoint progress is saved in this browser only.
Change one control at a time and watch which parts of the figure move. Each figure shows the formula for the current settings; compare the plotted values with that formula before drawing a conclusion.
If you need a refresher, or would like additional resources (and perhaps better instructors) for an introduction to calculus and other mathematical topics, I strongly recommend these two instructors. Each player below starts at the first video of a playlist: press play to watch it here, or open the playlist on YouTube. Each chapter also ends with a short selection of videos on its own topics.
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy
Short, patient blackboard lessons with many worked examples, from limits and derivatives to integrals and series.
Good places to start: introduction to limits (Chapter 1), derivative as the slope of a tangent line, optimisation with calculus and introduction to definite integrals (Chapter 2), simple differential equations (Chapter 3).
Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown
Twelve animated chapters that build the geometric intuition behind derivatives, integrals and the number e.
Good places to start: what’s so special about Euler’s number e? (Chapter 1), the paradox of the derivative, integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus and higher-order derivatives (Chapter 2).
Chapter 1
You have two attempts per question. After a wrong first answer, a hint appears; use it before choosing again. The score counts the questions answered correctly within two attempts.
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