Schaum's Outline of Mathematics of Finance, Second Edition

The ideal review for your financial mathematics course

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• Coverage of a wide variety of practical applications using actual business and financial transactions
• Each chapter presents principles and formulas, together with solved problems relevant to each subtopic, followed by a set of supplementary problems with answers
• Review problems at the end of the book for additional study or self-testing
• Chapter topics include: Exponents and logarithms; Progressions; Simple interest and discount; Compound interest and discount; Simple annuities; General and other annuities; Amortization and sinking funds; Bonds: Capital Budgeting and depreciation; Contingent payments; Life annuities and life insurance

Petr Zima serves on the faculties of three Canadian institutions―and is the coauthor of several works in financial mathematics and operations research.

Robert L. Brown, F.S.A., F.C.I.A., A.C.A.S. (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is a professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is author of three books and coauthor of a recent textbook in the mathematics of finance.

Professor Petr Zima is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo and teaches courses in mathematics of investment and finance.Professor Zima received his RNDr degree from Charles University in Prague in 1963 and Dipl Ing degree from the Prague School of Economics in 1968. Since 1968 he served on the faculties of Conestoga College in Kitchener, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, and University of Waterloo. He is an author and co-author of several textbooks in business mathematics, mathematics of finance, and operations research, published in Canada, U.S.A., Australia, Brazil, Singapore, Hungary, Thailand, and Italy.