2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

MATH 210 - Introduction to Quantitative Finance


This course is ideal for students who want a rigorous introduction to finance.  The course covers the following fundamental topics: the time value of money, portfolio theory, capital market theory, and security price modeling.  We shall dissect financial models by isolating their central assumptions and conceptual building blocks, showing rigorously how their governing equations and relations are derived, and weighing critically their strengths and weaknesses.

 

Prerequisites: MATH 131  or Permission

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically