An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation

This is a lively textbook providing a solid introduction to financial option valuation for undergraduate students armed with a working knowledge of a first year calculus.Written in a series of short chapters, its self-contained treatment gives equal weight to applied mathematics, stochastics and computational algorithms. No prior background in probability, statistics or numerical analysis is required. Detailed derivations of both the basic asset price model and the Black�Scholes equation are provided along with a presentation of appropriate computational techniques including binomial, finite differences and in particular, variance reduction techniques for the Monte Carlo method. Each chapter comes complete with accompanying stand-alone MATLAB code listing to illustrate a key idea. Furthermore, the author has made heavy use of figures and examples, and has included computations based on real stock market data.An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation is written by Desmond J. Higham and published by Cambridge University Press. ISBNs for An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation are 9780511252785, 0511252781 and the print ISBNs are 9780521547574, 0521547571.