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Primer Contest 2

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A5-year bond duration 3.5 years
A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering (Stefanica) · Ch 2 · Numerical integration. Interest Rates. Bonds
bondsdurationapproximation
1200
BArbitrage with calls and puts at three strikes
A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering (Stefanica) · Ch 1 · Calculus review. Options
optionsbutterflypayoff
1300
CLinear recursion x_{n+1} = 3x_n + 2
A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering (Stefanica) · Ch 0 · Mathematical preliminaries
recursioncharacteristic-polynomial
1500
D5-year bond price change
A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering (Stefanica) · Ch 5 · Taylor's formula. Taylor series
bondsdurationconvexity
1500
ENewton's method 2D F(x,y) = 0
A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering (Stefanica) · Ch 8 · Lagrange multipliers. Newton's method. Implied volatility. Bootstrapping
newtonmultivariablefinite-difference
2000