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Resources forÌýIntroduction to Financial Mathematics (IFM)Ìý- for more information about the course, please see course outlines.

Study skills

You may be interested in the MLC's seminars on doing a maths exam and writing and using a cheat sheet.

Assumed knowledge

This course uses a lot of mathematical notation. This seminar on understanding mathematical notation will be helpful.

This course also assumes you are familiar with the rules forÌýfor working with numbers and algebra. The MLC has a series of seminars online talking about these fundamental maths skills.Ìý

Functions

For alternative explanations and practice exercises on the various types of functions in this course, you can download the books from our bridging courses MathsStart and MathsTrack.

• Numbers and functions mini-textbook
• Linear functions mini-textbook
• Quadratic functions mini-textbook
• Rational functions mini-textbook
• Exponential functions mini-textbook
• Logarithmic functions mini-textbook
• Polynomial functions mini-textbook

For the topic of polynomials, this document describes various relationships between the polynomial's formula and its graph:

• Polynomial graph connections document

There is also this lecture given for MathsTrack students on polynomials:

This revision seminar was given in 2018. The first hour discussed inverse functions and logarithms.

This revision seminar was given in 2022. DavidÌýDavid discussed functions (at the start), including linear and quadratic functions, as well as inverse functions (56m11s).

Matrices

For alternativeÌýexplanations and also practice exercises for most of the concepts in this part of the course, you can download the books from our bridging course MathsTrack, or watch the matching videos:Ìý

• Matrices mini-textbook
• Linear equations mini-textbook

There are also lectures given for MathsTrack on these topics that you might find useful:

This revision seminar from 2014 was given for another course, but the content is similar to the content in IFM.ÌýIn particular, the first part covered the sizes of matrices, matrix addition, multiplication and powers, and transposes.Ìý(Note that the end of this seminar uses concepts not in IFM, so stop the video at the point where we talkÌýabout "span".)Ìý

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Revision seminars in order of time

The MLC has given revision seminars for IFM for many years, and these are organised here with the newest seminars at the top. Each seminar covers several different topics based on requests from the students.

2022

The 2022 revision seminar included functions (at the start), including linear and quadratic functions, as well as inverse functions (56m11s), and a little bit on the simplex methodÌý(1h20m10s).

2021

The 2021 seminar included quadratic functions, matrix determinants, and, annuities due and deferred annuities.

• No notes are available from the 2021 seminar

2019

The 2019 seminar included inverse functions, the bisection method, the simplex method, and inverse matrices,

2018

The 2018 seminar includedÌýinverse functions and logarithms, and three specific problems about equilibrium points, linearÌýsystems of equations, and parts-listing.

2015

The 2015 seminarÌýÌýincluded open and closed Leontief models, converting interest rates, logarithms, and deferred annuities.

The 2014 seminarÌýincluded Ìýthe bisection method, parts-listing matrices, converting interest rates, present values of perpetuities, optimisation word problems, sketching polynomials, and finding limits.