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Financial Mathematics

Financial Mathematics is an amalgamation of the folowing topics of mathematics: (i) interest problems including simple and compound interest, present and future values of annuities, force of interest, and equations of value (ii) applications of derivatives including absolute extrema, relative extrema, finding critical numbers, finding absolute extrema, optimization using derivatives, rolle's theorem, mean value theorem, increasing and decreasing functions, first derivative test, concavity and inflection points, second derivative test, sketching the graph of a function, limits to infinity and horizontal asymptotes, infinite limits and vertical asymptotes, vertical tangents and cusps, curve sketching, indeterminate forms, l hospital rule, and optimization techniques.

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exponential and logarithmic functions
applications of derivatives
financial applications

Financial Mathematics Books

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business List Price: $45.00 Buy New: $25.10 You Save: $19.90 (44%) New (42) Used (10) from $24.86Praise for How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business "I love this book. Douglas Hubbard helps us create a path to know the answer to almost any question in business, (more)

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Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model (Springer... List Price: $34.95 Buy New: $26.05 You Save: $8.90 (25%) New (34) Used (12) from $20.00Stochastic Calculus for Finance evolved from the first ten years of the Carnegie Mellon Professional Master's program in Computational Finance. The content of this book has been used successfully with (more)

Calculus with Applications (9th Edition) List Price: $138.67 Buy New: $85.00 You Save: $53.67 (39%) New (30) Used (37) from $79.90 Lial, Greenwell, and Ritchey continue their tradition of integrating relevant, realistic applications with current data sources to provide an application-oriented text for students majoring in business, (more)

An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Inside Technology) List Price: $23.00 Buy New: $16.45 You Save: $6.55 (28%) New (22) Used (4) from $16.45Winner of the 2008 Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award given by the American Sociological Association?s section on Economic Sociology., Winner, 2007 British International Studies Association?s (more)

Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 3ed (Schaum... List Price: $18.95 Buy New: $11.13 You Save: $7.82 (41%) New (42) Used (5) from $11.13Schaum's has Satisfied Students for 50 Years.. . Now Schaum's Biggest Sellers are in New Editions!. . For half a century, more than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them study faster, (more)

Principles of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (Academic Press Advanced ... List Price: $99.95 Buy New: $79.96 You Save: $19.99 (20%) New (18) Used (5) from $78.95Five new chapters, numerous additions to existing chapters, and an expanded collection of questions and exercises make this Second Edition an essential part of everyone's library. Between defining swaps (more)

Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer U... List Price: $39.95 Buy New: $25.14 You Save: $14.81 (37%) New (31) Used (11) from $25.19Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that (more)

Fractals and Scaling In Finance List Price: $74.95 Buy New: $54.00 You Save: $20.95 (28%) New (25) Used (14) from $45.00BLECK: PHYSICS TODAY "At once a compendium of Mandelbrot's pioneering work and a sampling of new results, the presentation seems modeled on the brilliant avant-garde film 'Last Year in Marienbad', (more)

The Econometrics of Financial Markets List Price: $105.00 Buy New: $45.00 You Save: $60.00 (57%) New (30) Used (24) from $31.50The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio (more)