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Karate Science

Dynamic Movement

by J. D. Swanson, PHD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Dynamics, motion, and sensation are karate’s connective tissue—and they are the heart of this book. As a lifelong student of martial arts, J. D. Swanson, PhD, had searched through piles of books on form and function. Stand here, they said. Step there. But where movement was concerned, not...
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Seeing What Others Don't

The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

by Gary Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

A renowned cognitive psychologist reveals the science behind achieving breakthrough discoveries, allowing readers to confidently solve problems, improve decision-making, and achieve success. Insights-like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough...
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The Smart Habit Guide

37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making

by I. C. Robledo
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014

The Smart Habit Guide is an International Bestseller with over 250 Five-Star Reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, across four translations. Think Smarter. Work Smarter. Be Smarter. Imagine if there was a secret that all of the smart people in the world were keeping from you. And this meant...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010

Not until the recent attacks on transport systems has transport security become a focus of public concern and academic research. Various aspects of transport security have already been analysed under different agendas. Some research was focused on the potential risk to the environment resulting from...
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by Robert Kosowski, Salih N. Neftci
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

Principles of Financial Engineering, Third Edition, is a highly acclaimed text on the fast-paced and complex subject of financial engineering. This updated edition describes the "engineering" elements of financial engineering instead of the mathematics underlying it. It shows how to use...
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by S. David Promislow
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to actuarial mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic models of life contingencies, as well as more advanced topics such as risk theory, credibility theory and multi-state models. This new edition includes additional material on...
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by Ali Hirsa, Salih N. Neftci
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives is a popular, intuitive text that eases the transition between basic summaries of financial engineering to more advanced treatments using stochastic calculus. Requiring only a basic knowledge of calculus and probability, it takes readers...
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by Sheldon M. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

This textbook on the basics of option pricing is accessible to readers with limited mathematical training. It is for both professional traders and undergraduates studying the basics of finance. Assuming no prior knowledge of probability, Sheldon M. Ross offers clear, simple explanations of arbitrage,...
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by M V Tretyakov
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

This book is an elementary introduction to the basic concepts of financial mathematics with a central focus on discrete models and an aim to demonstrate simple, but widely used, financial derivatives for managing market risks. Only a basic knowledge of probability, real analysis, ordinary differential...
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Mathematical Risk Analysis

Dependence, Risk Bounds, Optimal Allocations and Portfolios

by Ludger Rüschendorf
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

The author's particular interest in the area of risk measures is to combine this theory with the analysis of dependence properties. The present volume gives an introduction of basic concepts and methods in mathematical risk analysis, in particular of those parts of risk theory that are of special...
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Financial Calculus

An Introduction to Derivative Pricing

by Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1996

The rewards and dangers of speculating in the modern financial markets have come to the fore in recent times with the collapse of banks and bankruptcies of public corporations as a direct result of ill-judged investment. At the same time, individuals are paid huge sums to use their mathematical skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

This volume gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference "MAF 2016 – Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance”, held in Paris (France) at the Université Paris-Dauphine from March 30 to April 1, 2016. *The contributions...
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Computational Finance

An Introductory Course with R

by Argimiro Arratia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

The book covers a wide range of topics, yet essential, in Computational Finance (CF), understood as a mix of Finance, Computational Statistics, and Mathematics of Finance. In that regard it is unique in its kind, for it touches upon the basic principles of all three main components of CF, with hands-on...
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Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance

ICASQF2016, Cartagena, Colombia, June 2016

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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Developed from the Second International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, this volume showcases the latest progress in all theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance. Held at the Universidad de Cartagena in Cartegena, Colombia in June 2016,...
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