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Math 174: Mathematics of Finance |
Catalog Description
174. Mathematics of Finance. (Formerly numbered 181.) Lecture, three hours; discussion,
one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 33A, 170A (or Statistics 100A), Economics 11. Not open for credit to students with credit for Statistics C183. Modeling, mathematics and computation
for financial securities. Price of risk. Random walk models for stocks and interest
rates. No-arbitrage theory for pricing derivative securities; Black-Scholes
theory. European and American options. Monte Carlo, trees, and finite difference
methods. P/NP or letter grading.
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General Information
In the past several decades mathematics has become an integral part of the financial industry.
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