Giuseppe Campolieti is Professor of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. He has been Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral research fellow and university research fellow at the University of Toronto. In 1998, he joined the Masters in Mathematical Finance as an instructor and later as an adjunct professor in financial mathematics until 2002. Dr. Campolieti also founded a financial software and consulting company in 1998. He joined Laurier in 2002 as Associate Professor of Mathematics and as SHARCNET Chair in Financial Mathematics.

Roman N. Makarov is Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to joining Laurier in 2003, he was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics and a senior research fellow at the Laboratory of Monte Carlo Methods at the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Part I: Stochastic Calculus with Brownian Motion. 1. One-Dimensional Brownian Motion and Related Processes. 2. Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Calculus. Part II Continuous-Time Modelling. 3. Risk-Neutral Pricing in the (B; S) Economy: One Underlying Stock. 4. Risk-Neutral Pricing in a Multi-Asset Economy. 5. American Options. 6. Interest-Rate Modelling and Derivative Pricing. 7. Alternative Models of Asset Price Dynamics. A. Essentials of General Probability Theory. B. Some Useful Integral (Expectation) Identities and Symmetry Properties of Normal Random Variables. C. Answers and Hints to Exercises. D. Glossary of Symbols and Abbreviations. Greek Alphabet. References. Index.