This second edition has a unique approach that provides a broad and wide introduction into the fascinating area of probability theory. It starts on a fast track with the treatment of probability theor
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These lecture notes are based on a graduate course given for several years at Vilnius University as part of the master program Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. They are intended to give a short in
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These notes have been prepared for the Special Research Semester on Financial Markets, which was held in Pisa, from April 29 to July 15, 2002. The general topics of these lectures is the Hamilton-Jaco
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