MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS——AN INTERSCIENCE CROSSBREED OF MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS

Mathematical economics is a newly emerging research field resulting from the academic crossbreeding of mathematics and economics. It is a brainchild emerging from the marriage between natural sciences and social sciences. This article gives a detailed exposition of the discipline’s history, its integration with our country’s socialist market economy and its modem development. The article ultimately explains its application to the comprehensive reclamation of the salinity-plagued agriculture on the Huanghuaihai Plain.