Description: This book provides aspiring quant developers with the numerical techniques and programming skills needed in quantitative finance. No programming background required.
Brief description: Tomasz Zastawniak holds the Chair of Mathematical Finance at the University of York. He has authored about fifty research publications and four books. He has supervised four PhD dissertations and around eighty MSc dissertations in mathematical finance.
Review Quotes: "I find the monograph to be an excellent integration of the object-oriented concepts of C++ and the classical numerical techniques used in quantitative finance. Throughout the book, there is an introduction to the numerical technique to be used, along with the need for such a method from the prospective of financial mathematics. After this discussion, the C++ source code that implements the technique is not only given but also annotated to highlight or to clarify reasons for the use of certain object-oriented constructs. As the authors comment, there are some source files which are not listed but are available from the publisher's web site.
The monograph is an exceptional book for demonstrating the implementation of the various aspects of C++ in a very concrete fashion. There is substance given to C++ concepts that are introduced in basic programming courses but seldom framed in a realistic setting. The reader, however, should have some familiarity with C++ and mathematical finance, prior to reading the monograph. The book is not intended to be an introduction to either object-oriented C++ or mathematical finance. With such a background, the style and the content of the book make for an informative experience."
Professor Sherman Wong, City University of New York