January 27th, 2011, 12:48 am
I've been teaching the Derivative Securities course in the NYU mathematical finance program at Courant for the past couple of years and was a bit shocked that there is no proof of the FTAP accessible to graduate level students available in the literature. There is still no simple proof available in the literature. This paper was rejected because the referee thought the proof was too simple. Time to change the title and submit somewhere else.(A Simple Proof of) The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing: Discrete Time