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Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

May 14th, 2018, 4:44 pm

I am considering buying this 3-volume set, but I saw the current edition is the 2nd edition published in 2006. Does Wilmott have any plan to release a new updated edition recently? If so, I may hold and wait for the new edition.
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

May 14th, 2018, 4:50 pm

Wilmott doesn't. 

The book, like most things I do, is meant to teach people to develop their own skills. Unlike some books I could mention which are great for what they contain but leave you unable to do anything for yourself!
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

December 1st, 2019, 5:47 pm

I've bought digital version of Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance 3 Volume Set (2nd Edition) but then noticed that CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Is there any way I can buy CD separately or maybe it's shared somewhere?
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

December 1st, 2019, 6:06 pm

If it's shared then Wiley's lawyers will be onto whoever is doing the sharing. 

But just email [email protected] to get the CD.
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

December 1st, 2019, 6:13 pm

I think Wiley discontinued providing CDs/DVDS along with the book some time ago, at least my own books.
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

December 1st, 2019, 6:49 pm

Thank you guys, very appreciate it!
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

February 12th, 2020, 4:35 pm

" discontinued providing CDs/DVDS along with the book " 

CDs ?? Credit Default Swaps?   

"But just email  to get the CD." credit default?

No thanks! but thanks for the tip! (rigged)

looks like a interesting book by the way, this both with or without the added benefit of a credit default trigger help line.
 
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

February 19th, 2020, 12:08 pm

Volume 3, page 1040, section 64.4 "Stochastic Dividends"
The principal part (i.e. the 2nd order derivatives in [$]S,D[$]) in its current form is parabolic and not elliptic (discriminant is zero) because the correlation term [$]\rho[$] is not present in the PDE. Should it not be

[$]\rho \sigma q S \frac{\partial^2V}{\partial S \partial D}[$]?

BTW it is possible to remove the mixed derivatives by the canonical transformation 

[$]\xi = \alpha logx - y, \eta = \beta log x[$]

where [$]\alpha = \rho q \sigma[$] and [$]\beta = \sqrt{1-\rho^2} q \sigma[$]

resulting in

[$]A \frac{\partial^2V}{\partial \xi^2} + B \frac{\partial^2V}{\partial \eta^2}[$] + lower-order terms 

and with

[$]A = B = \frac{1}{2} q^2 (1 - \rho^2)[$].

This is also an elliptic PDE since its discriminant is negative.
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Re: Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, new edition?

December 5th, 2020, 3:38 pm

Volume III. page 1261 Hopscotch Method
This is similar to ADE in that it is stable _and_ explicit which can't be a bad thing. The numerical analysts at Dundee did work here but I have seen little of it in finance ("clamped" to ADI and Crank-Nicolson). At lest for zero correlation, it looks attractive. Of course, we can transform the PDE to make it 'correlaton-free'.

typo?
2nd eq. should be

[$]V^{k+1}_{ij} = V^{k}_{ij} + the rest unchanged[$]