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Mathematics reviews

At the start of each semester, the Mathematics Help Centre (MHC) organizes sessions to review basic mathematics concepts found in quantitative courses offered at HEC Montréal.

Below, you will find the schedule of review sessions and a brief description of their content. If you do not feel at ease with some of these concepts, we strongly recommend that you attend the corresponding review session. Other reviews are available: see the registration site for more details.

To ensure that there is sufficient space, we invite you to register for each of the review sessions in which you would like to participate.

Registration site

IMPORTANT: The registration site specifies the schedule, rooms and the documents used in the review sessions, if applicable.

All the review sessions are given in french.

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) Courses

+ Modélisation et optimisation (1-611-09)

Linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic functions
Derivatives concepts
Solving equations
Graphical representation of a 2D function with Excel
Matrix (definition, identifying sign of a matrix)

+ Mathématiques financières (1-612-96)

Geometric sequences
Properties of exponents and logarithms
Interest rate calculation and conversion of interest rate
geometric series
Using Excel in financial mathematics

+ Statistiques (1-620-07)

Review of the Probability course (1-613-07)
Random variable, distribution, variance, standard deviation, expectation value, average, correlation coefficient, median
Mathematical symbols and statistics often used
Specific Excel functions

+ Analyse microéconomique (1-803-07)

The line
Derivatives concepts
Application to Microeconomics

+ Analyse macroéconomique (1-804-07)

Exchange rates, growth rate, inflation rate
Line and slope
Quadratic function
Solving equations

+ Finance (2-200-96)

Properties of exponents and logarithms
Isolate a variable in an equation
Compound interest, annuities, cash flows, equivalent rat, bond value
Using the Excel Solver

+ Éléments de recherche opérationnelle (2-651-10)

Using the Excel Solver
Solving a linear programming model and a network problem

+ Gestion des risques

Normality, non-normality, skewness coefficient
Log-Normal function v. Normal function
Brownian motion, modeling in finance
Monte Carlo simulation

+ Modèles probabilistes et stochastiques de la gestion (3-602-09)

First reminder: Integrals

Simple integrals
Integration by change of variables, partial fractions, by parts
Gamma function
Double integrals
Exercises

Secondreminder: Multiple integrals

Reminder on simple integrals
Double integrals (partition of R2, elementary regions, the relationship between single and double
Integrals in the calculation using a surface)
Triple integrals

Third reminder: Matrices

Particular matrices
Elementary operations (scalar multiplication, addition, multiplication, transpose, trace of a matrix, determinant)
Echelon form and reduced-rank of a matrix
Inverse matrix
Solving a system of linear equations (eg Markov chain)
Exercises