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Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Quantitative Methods: Coursework Instructions This coursework tests your basic financial mathematics and statistical modelling, using spreadsheet software (Excel – financial maths, graphical features, the Data Analysis and Solver tools). Your answers are to be presented in a report (essay) format, for which you will use a word processor. In writing...
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What's new (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Some time ago, I wrote a short unpublished note (mostly for my own benefit) when I was trying to understand the derivation of the Black-Scholes equation in financial mathematics, which computes the price of various options under some assumptions on the underlying financial model. In order to avoid issues relating to stochastic calculus, Itō’s formula, [...]
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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The University of Minnesota is developing this series of publicly available lectures that will lead in a very gentle way to the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula, and perhaps beyond. Includes Audio. View the full item at MoneyScience.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite recent critical focus on financial derivatives, and weakness in the financial sector, demand for its practitioners remains strong.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Jimmy Wales changed the world with Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What will he do next? ?WHY is this working??, Jimmy Wales recalls pondering during the mid 1990s. He had been doing online research for his PhD thesis in financial mathematics and came across a ?free software? manifesto written by Richard Stallman, a bearded hacker and an evangelist for what...
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Science and Tech headlines (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I have a GPA blow 3.0 but I have some very strong markets in economics and some strong marks in my financial mathematics class. I currently holding a B. Comm. with a major in finance and doing another degree in economics with a minor in math. Some of my math classes have killed my GPA. I hold a sold B in honours micro and two upper year financial math classes. Also, I have a number of A's in other...
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Hillary Clinton's attempt to revive her campaign for the presidency already faces daunting organizational, financial and mathematical challenges. But her fundamental message is the biggest challenge of all. Barack Obama has captured the imagination of America with his appeals to...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
CHICAGO & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Chicago’s Financial Mathematics Department will establish its graduate program in Singapore
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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
Probabilistic methods for solving computational problems in financial mathematics are challenges in both theory and application and are also necessary ingredients to apply modern financial mathematics to real world problems. Examples include calculating option prices by tree-based, Monte Carlo
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Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
A concentration in Financial Mathematics is being proposed for the Applied Math BS. Except for reducing the number of Science courses with a lab, this concentration fits into the AMA program. For more information on this proposal, please visit http://www.math.ncsu.edu/selfreg/proposals/
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Beasiswa Indonesia Scholarship (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
University College Cork SFI Research Frontiers Programme 2007 PhD Position Financial Algebra School of Mathematical Sciences A Ph.D. position for carrying out arbitrage analysis of currency exchange rates using max-plus algebra, is currently available in the School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland under the supervision of Professor Bernard Hanzon. The research in Financial...
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Blog Catalog Blog Directory (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
Detailed tutorials on using the Texas Instrument BAII Plus Professional financial calculator for solving cash flow problems in financial mathematics.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Chicago’s newly formed Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, an innovative approach to advance
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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 10/04/2007
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist , philosopher of randomness, researcher, and practitioner of financial mathematics. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives, he had a distinguished career on Wall Street, before he reduced his financial mathematics activities to sta
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/07/2007
ClariFI is a newly acquired business of Standard & Poor's Capital IQ
NEW YORK, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClariFI(TM), a Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ business and leading provider of software and services
focused on quantitative portfolio management and research, today announced
that the University of Chicago has integrated ModelStation(TM) into the
core curriculum for students in the Master...
