From memories of a quantum mechanics class and Wikipedia: In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundament …

I have some confusions about the concept of "efficiency" in auction theory. One interpretation is that an auction is efficient if it maximizes the social-welfare. But social-welfar …

I suppose this is really an economics question, but I'm posting here for want of a more appropriate forum. My question concerns an aggregate demand system in which we have $n$ var …

I'm currently teaching an integral calculus course for business students, and we're just about to discuss differential equations. They've worked hard, and I'd like to reward them w …

I've been reading up a lot on the recent financial crisis, and central to the story is the existence of general equilibrium models in economics, say, as proven by Arrow and Debreu …

If I have committed to a number x by revealing g^x mod p, can I prove that 0 < x mod (p-1) < (p-1)/2, i.e. that x is positive, without leaking any more information about x? …

Are the sites similar to mathoverflow in other sciences related to mathematics? statistics, computer science, physics, economics, etc? Let me explain what I mean by "similar": tho …

This may be the wrong forum, but are there any natural contexts (physics, economics, etc.) in which one might observe the relationship $y = ax/(bx+c)$ between a pair of variables $ …

The following graph theoretic notion appeared in an economics paper entitled: "Prize competition under limited comparability, by Michele Piccione and Ran Spiegler which studies mod …

I'm interested in the solution to the following problem: I have initial capital $C$ which I can invest into $M$ classes of resources, each unit of a class $m_i$ matures at time $t …