Mathematical Finance Lecture Notes
Clare Wallace, Durham University
Lecture notes that introduce mathematical finance through the binomial model: portfolios, arbitrage, martingales and the pricing of contingent claims. They finish with the Black-Scholes formula as the limit of the discrete model.
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