Maths for micro - confused

[alrightnow]

Dear all,

I've got Collell et al's book on microeconomic theory for first year undergrads. My maths is struggling to keep up with the Econ theory. In particular, where (in which book) can I learn the fundamentals of sets through which the chapter on consumer choice is presented.

A more general question would be: what maths do high school students study in the US before starting their first year Econ theory courses? I'd like to read up on that material too.

Grateful for any suggestions,

arn.

[StatsG0d]

Calculus is usually the only prerequisite for an undergraduate course in micro. What you're reading is more typical of a graduate sequence than an undergraduate, as expressed by the book's Amazon page:

"Microeconomic Theory brings the readability, comprehensiveness, and versatility to the first-year graduate classroom that has long been missing."

[gliaful]

When I was in high school (in the US), I took microeconomics after taking precalculus. I had no background in elementary set theory then, but I do now. 

This http://courses.umass.edu/phil595s-gmh/pdf/set%20theory/Set-Theory-Chap0.pdf OR http://www.mathsisfun.com/sets/set-builder-notation.html might be helpful if it's the notation that is confusing to you, but I don't remember encountering set-builder notation in microeconomics.

[alrightnow]

Dear footballman2399,

For some reason I thought this was a book for undergrads. Should have read the Amazon description, but I bought it on impulse! (An Amazon customer recommended it). Could anyone recommend a good undergrad micro theory book?

And thanks for the links, pasteltomato.

[Poli92]

I liked Hal Varian's intermediate Micro book. 

[StatsG0d]

Dear footballman2399,

For some reason I thought this was a book for undergrads. Should have read the Amazon description, but I bought it on impulse! (An Amazon customer recommended it). Could anyone recommend a good undergrad micro theory book?

And thanks for the links, pasteltomato.

 

Varian is kind of the standard. That was used by my friend at UChicago for his undergrad sequence.

[dahlecon1]

Price theory and applications by Landsburg was the text we used for intermediate micro, for math the only prerequisite was calc 1