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An undergraduate introduction to financial mathematics / J. Robert Buchanan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing, 2006Description: xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9812566376
  • 9789812566379
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.01513 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5691 .B875 2006
Contents:
1. The theory of interest -- 2. Discrete probability -- 3. Normal random variables and probability -- 4. The arbitrage theorem -- 5. Random walks and Brownian motion -- 6. Options -- 7. Solution of the Black-Scholes equation -- 8. Derivatives of Black-Scholes option prices -- 9. Hedging -- 10. Optimizing portfolios -- App. A. Sample stock market data.
Review: "This textbook provides an introduction to financial mathematics and financial engineering for undergraduate students who have completed a three or four semester sequence of calculus courses. It introduces the theory of interest, random variables and probability, stochastic processes, arbitrage, option pricing, hedging, and portfolio optimization. The student progresses from knowing only elementary calculus to understanding the derivation and solution of the Black-Scholes partial differential equation and its solutions. This is one of the few books on the subject of financial mathematics which is accessible to undergraduates having only a thorough grounding in elementary calculus. It explains the subject matter without "hand waving" arguments and includes numerous examples. Every chapter concludes with a set of exercises which test the chapter's concepts and fill in details of derivations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index.

1. The theory of interest -- 2. Discrete probability -- 3. Normal random variables and probability -- 4. The arbitrage theorem -- 5. Random walks and Brownian motion -- 6. Options -- 7. Solution of the Black-Scholes equation -- 8. Derivatives of Black-Scholes option prices -- 9. Hedging -- 10. Optimizing portfolios -- App. A. Sample stock market data.

"This textbook provides an introduction to financial mathematics and financial engineering for undergraduate students who have completed a three or four semester sequence of calculus courses. It introduces the theory of interest, random variables and probability, stochastic processes, arbitrage, option pricing, hedging, and portfolio optimization. The student progresses from knowing only elementary calculus to understanding the derivation and solution of the Black-Scholes partial differential equation and its solutions. This is one of the few books on the subject of financial mathematics which is accessible to undergraduates having only a thorough grounding in elementary calculus. It explains the subject matter without "hand waving" arguments and includes numerous examples. Every chapter concludes with a set of exercises which test the chapter's concepts and fill in details of derivations."--BOOK JACKET.

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