User talk:Drusus 0/Black-Scholes option pricing — a version for mathematicians

This page is a derivative (no financial pun intended) of the Black-Scholes page. The reader is cautioned that this page is intended for a mathematical audience. The original page is recommended for students of finance. The purpose of this page is to make this knowledge more accessible to mathematicians. This involves explicitly stating the ontology; highlighting the essential driving assumptions; trimming away any unnecessary calculations; and of course, considering generalisations where possible.

I will slowly be working on this page, so please be patient.

I had performed a lot of changes to the financial version, which took quite a bit of time (to typeset), and which were removed (for reasons which I agree with, as although I think they were changes for the better, they would not be recieved well by non-mathematical students). However this page is the right place to place these changes. The other thing that is needed to be done, is to either generate original background historical information, etc. for Black-Scholes option pricing, or to request permission to be able to duplicate what is written on the other page. (After all this is intended to be a counterpart to the original page, just for a different audience.) If the former option is taken (and I hope this will be taken in some part), I hope some people can step up to perform this role, as I am not trained in this area. I can only do the math.

— drusus null 13:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)