Overview
- Provides a good balance between mathematical derivation and accessibility to the reader and instructor
- Self-contained with respect to required finance background, providing financial minutia along the way as needed
- Useful for students preparing for high level study in mathematical finance or a career in actuarial science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology (SUMAT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- textbook finance undergrad
- Markowitz portfolio theory
- Black-Scholes-Merton model
- BSM model
- Brownian motion model
- capital market theory
- security price behavior
- modeling derivatives
- bid-ask spreads
- market liquidity
- APR
- APY
- annuity theory
- application annuity
- Sharpe ratio
- Sortino ratio
- stochastic calculus
- forwards
- futures
- European option pricing
About this book
This textbook aims to fill the gap between those that offer a theoretical treatment without many applications and those that present and apply formulas without appropriately deriving them. The balance achieved will give readers a fundamental understanding of key financial ideas and tools that form the basis for building realistic models, including those that may become proprietary. Numerous carefully chosen examples and exercises reinforce the student’s conceptual understanding and facility with applications. The exercises are divided into conceptual, application-based, and theoretical problems, which probe the material deeper.
The book is aimed toward advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students who are new to finance or want a more rigorous treatment of the mathematical models used within. While no background in finance is assumed, prerequisite math courses include multivariable calculus, probability, and linear algebra. The authors introduce additional mathematical tools as needed. The entire textbook is appropriate for a single year-long course on introductory mathematical finance. The self-contained design of the text allows for instructor flexibility in topics courses and those focusing on financial derivatives. Moreover, the text is useful for mathematicians, physicists, and engineers who want to learn finance via an approach that builds their financial intuition and is explicit about model building, as well as business school students who want a treatment of finance that is deeper but not overly theoretical.
Reviews
“The book is thick with rich with applications and solid justifications of all concepts. … If you are a financial mathematics instructor, this book is for you. It progresses through easier topics to more advanced topics very well and is practical, meaningful, and more importantly, relevant to the 21st century financial student. … can be used as the one standard book for your class but can also be a springboard to research projects with your more advanced and curious students.” (Peter T. Olszewski, MAA Reviews, August, 2017)
“This self-contained book is well organized and covers a broad range of classical topics of financial mathematics. A rich source of examples and exercises, the book is an ideal textbook for both undergraduate and graduate students that are interested in mathematical models in finance. The book can also be used for mathematically trained students and individuals in actuarial science to prepare for professional exams.” (Zhuo Jin, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017)
“The book is an undergraduate textbook in mathematical finance with applications. … The textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduates, and also at master's degree students who want a more rigorous treatment of the mathematical models in finance. This text will be a very good textbook for a year-long course on introductory mathematical finance.” (Anatoliy Swishchuk, zbMATH 1348.91002, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Xiaoying Dong is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke University and has been a professional trader for over 20 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications
Book Subtitle: Understanding and Building Financial Intuition
Authors: Arlie O. Petters, Xiaoying Dong
Series Title: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3783-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3781-3Published: 18 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8137-3Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3783-7Published: 17 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1867-5506
Series E-ISSN: 1867-5514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 483
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantitative Finance, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Actuarial Sciences