Mathematics for Economists

E. Roy Weintraub is an American economist and mathematician. He works as a Professor of Economics in Duke University. Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been as an economist. In recent years his research and teaching activities have focused upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the twentieth century. This work, in the history of economics, has helped shape the understanding of economists and historians: his General Equilibrium Theory (1985), Stabilizing Dynamics (1991), Toward a History of Game Theory (ed.) (1992) and How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002) have charted the transformation of economics from a historical to a mathematical discipline.