Economics and Mathematics

About this course

Economics and Mathematics is one of the most demanding and rewarding degree combinations available, bringing together two disciplines that are increasingly inseparable in modern economic analysis. Mathematics provides the formal language in which economic theories are expressed and tested, while economics provides the real-world questions that give mathematical tools their significance. At the highest levels of academic research and professional practice in finance, policy, and business, fluency in both is not an advantage but a prerequisite. At the University of Bristol, this three-year full-time programme combines high-level mathematics with a technically rigorous economics curriculum that makes extensive use of mathematical tools, including econometrics, which is the application of statistical methods to economic data. You will study calculus, linear algebra, probability, and analysi

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