I found this textbook extremely teaching-oriented and an excellent introduction to a very hard subject, such as stochastic calculus. I would definitely recommend it for a Master's level financial engineering course.
Elementary Stochastic Calculus With Finance in View
โ Scribed by Thomas Mikosch
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publ
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 112
- Series
- Advanced series on statistical science & applied probability 6
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
I found this textbook extremely teaching-oriented and an excellent introduction to a very hard subject, such as stochastic calculus. I would definitely recommend it for a Master's level financial engineering course.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Time spent to read the book in detail: Four weeksThe book, 295 pages, is ordered as follows:Chapter 1 (First 50 pages):These cover discreet time martingale theory. Expectation/Conditional expectation: The coverage here is unusual and I found it irritating. The author defines conditional expectation
The prolonged boom in the US and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of deriva