Mathematics of Finance for Mathematics/Economics Students

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 33A, and 170A or 170E or Statistics 100A. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 174A, Economics 141, or Statistics C183/C283. Mathematical modeling of financial securities in discrete and continuous time. Forwards, futures, hedging, swaps, uses and pricing (tree models and Black-Scholes) of European and American options, Greeks and numerical methods. P/NP or letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
8.3 / 10
Organization
8.3 / 10
Time
0-5 hrs/week
Overall
10.0 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Summer 2023 Online
    Grade: A

    Taught super clearly and made it pretty straightforward to succeed. 3-4 quizzes based off lecture slides and worksheets given in discussion. Tests were fair and especially with it being online since summer, class was overall super easy.

Course

Instructor
Moritz Voss
Previously taught
23Su 23W 22F 22Su 22S 22W 21F 21S 21W

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance not required

  • 1 midterm

  • Finals week final

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