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Record Nr.

UNISA996466729203316

Autore

Ziemann Volker

Titolo

Physics and finance / / Volker Ziemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-63643-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 286 p. 65 illus., 43 illus. in color.)

Collana

Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Finance

Finance - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Concepts of finance -- Chapter 3 - Portfolio theory and CAPM -- Chapter 4 - Stochastic processes -- Chapter 5 - Black-Scholes differential equation -- Chapter 6 - The Greeks and risk management -- Chapter 7 - Regression models and hypothesis testing -- Chapter 8 - Time series -- Chapter 9 - Bubbles, crashes, fat tails and Levy-stable distributions -- Chapter 10 - Quantum finance and path integrals -- Chapter 11 - Optimal control theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces physics students to concepts and methods of finance. Despite being perceived as quite distant from physics, finance shares a number of common methods and ideas, usually related to noise and uncertainties. Juxtaposing the key methods to applications in both physics and finance articulates both differences and common features, this gives students a deeper understanding of the underlying ideas. Moreover, they acquire a number of useful mathematical and computational tools, such as stochastic differential equations, path integrals, Monte-Carlo methods, and basic cryptology. Each chapter ends with a set of carefully designed exercises enabling readers to test their comprehension.