Practical guide to quantitative finance interviews /
[Book]
Xinfeng Zhou ; edited by Brett Jiu.
1st ed.
[Scotts Valley, Calif.] :
[Createspace],
2008.
v, 195 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General principles -- Brain teasers. Problem simplification ; Logic reasoning ; Thinking out of the box ; Application of symmetry ; Series summation ; The pigeon hole principle ; Modular arithmetic ; Math induction ; Proof by contradiction -- Calculus and linear algebra. Limits and derivatives ; Integration ; Partial derivatives and multiple integrals ; Important calculus methods ; Ordinary differential equations ; Linear algebra -- Probability theory. Basic probability definitions and set operations ; Combinatorial analysis ; Conditional probability and Bayes' formula ; Discrete and continuous distributions ; Expected value, variance & covariance ; Order statistics -- Stochastic process and stochastic calculus. Markov chain ; Martingale and random walk ; Dynamic programming ; Brownian motion and Stochastic calculus -- Finance. Option pricing ; The Greeks ; Option portfolios and exotic options ; Other finance questions -- Algorithms and numerical methods. Algorithms ; The power of two ; Numerical methods.