Partial Differential Equations in Finance

Objectives

In this subject, some ordinary differential equations, as well as, some partial differential equations of the elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic types will be studied. Moreover, the study of some variational inequalities will also be considered.

Program

  1. Ordinary Differential Equations. Exact equations. Integrating Factor.
  2. Partial Differential Equations of the Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic types.
  3. Sturm-Liouville Problems.
  4. Fourier Series and Transform.
  5. Laplace Transform.
  6. Black-Scholes Equation.
  7. Variational Inequalities.

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