Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 72(1) pp.173--176, 2005.

Numerical methods for quantitative finance

(abstract of PhD thesis)

Jamie Alcock

Received: 16th May, 2005

Thesis submitted to The University of Queensland, September 2004. Degree approved, April 2005.
Supervisor: Professor Kevin Burrage

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(Metadata: XML, RSS, BibTeX) MathSciNet: MR2162303 Z'blatt-MATH: 02212195

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