"This book falls broadly in the area of financial mathematics. It presents a multitude of topics that are relevant to the quantitative finance community. Experts in teaching and active in research, the authors aim to discuss theory in the context of applications to specific practical problems....

"The concept of local volatility as well as the local volatility model are one of the classical topics of mathematical finance. Although the existing literature is wide, there still exist various problems that have not drawn sufficient attention so far, for example: a) construction of analytical...

The actuary and its environment -- Financial markets and their securities -- Forwards and futures -- Swaps -- Options -- Engineering basic options -- Engineering advanced derivatives -- Equity-linked insurance and annuities -- One-period binomial tree model -- Two-period binomial tree model --...