Essential Mathematics for Economics and Business has become established as one of the leading introductory books on mathematics. It combines a non-rigorous approach to mathematics with applications in economics and business. The fundamental mathematical concepts are explained as simply and as briefly as possible, using a wide selection of worked examples, graphs and real-world applications.· Mathematical preliminaries · The straight line and applications · Simultaneous equations · Non-linear functions and applications · Financial Mathematics · Introduction to differentiation and applications · Functions of several variables · Integration and applications · Linear algebra and applications · Difference equations · Solutions to progress exercises