TY - BOOK AU - Campolieti,Giuseppe AU - Makarov,Roman N. TI - Financial mathematics: a comprehensive treatment T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC financial mathematics series SN - 9781439892428 (hbk.) U1 - 650.01513 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Finance KW - Mathematical models N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Introduction to pricing and management of financial securites: 1. Mathematics of Compounding -- 2. Primer on Pricing Risky Securities -- 3. Portfolio Management -- Primer on Derivative Securities -- II. Discrete-time modeling: 5. Single-Period Arrow-Debreu Models -- 6. Introduction to Discrete-Time Stochastic Calculus -- 7. Replication and Pricing in the Binomial Tree Model -- 8. General Multi-Asset Multi-Period Model -- III. Continuous-time modeling: 9. Essentials of General Probability Theory -- 10. One-Dimensional Brownian Motion and Related Processes -- 11. Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Calculus -- 12. Risk-Neutral Pricing in the (B, S) Economy: One Underlying Stock -- 13. Risk-Neutral Pricing in a Multi-Asset Economy -- 14. American Options -- 15. Interest-Rate Modelling and Derivative Pricing -- 16. Alternative Models of Asset Price Dynamics -- IV. Computational Techniques -- 17. Introduction to Monte Carlo and Simulation Methods -- 18. Numerical Applications to Derivative Pricing-- Appendix-- Glossary of symbols and abbreviations-- References-- Index N2 - Provides a unified, self-contained account of the main theory and application of methods behind modern-day financial mathematics. Tested and refined through years of the authors' teaching experiences, the book encompasses a breadth of topics, from introductory to more advanced ones ER -