COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE, George Levy, Butterworth Heinemann
Modern financial markets trade securities that are more an more complex. This is indeed a reflection of the numerous risks that are in still need of markets to hedge them. Derivative assets play a key role in the manufacturing process of new assets and structured solutions. Investment banks are key actors in this process which is highly computer intensive.
Computational Finance presents a modern computational approach to mathematical finance within the Windows environment, and contains financial algorithms, mathematical proofs and computer code in C/C++.
The author illustrates how numeric components can be developed which allow financial routines to be easily called by the complete range of Windows applications, such as Excel, Borland Delphi, Visual Basic and Visual C++. These components permit software developers to call mathematical finance functions more easily than in corresponding packages. Although these packages may offer the advantage of interactive interfaces, it is not easy or computationally efficient to call them programmatically as a component of a larger system. The components are therefore well suited to software developers who want to include finance routines into a new application.
Typical readers are expected to have a knowledge of calculus, differential equations, statistics, Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic, C++ and HTML. A CD-ROM is included which contains: working computer code, demonstration applications and also pdf versions of several research articles.
About the author:
George Levy, DPhil, University of Oxford, Software Developer, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
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