Overview
The mathematics of financial derivatives is a book by Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison and Jeff Dewynne, first published in 1995. In this catalogue it is classified mainly under Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management.
Audience and depth. The rule-based model places its mathematical difficulty at intermediate level (6/10); readers are typically expected to know calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, numerical analysis, probability theory and stochastic processes.
Orientation. The theory-versus-practice balance could not be determined from metadata. The archive holds 6 papers whose topics and vocabulary overlap with this book; those links are inferred (see the research connections below).
How to read this page. Topics, difficulty, prerequisites and orientation are model-derived (rule-based, rule_based_v1) from bibliographic metadata such as title, subject headings and edition data. They were not produced by reading the book and are not a review. Relevance confidence is 98% and difficulty confidence is 90%; the catalogue lists no ratings or awards.