Java Methods for Financial Engineering: Applications in Finance and Investment - Hardcover

Barker, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852338326 ISBN 13: 9781852338329

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

This book describes the principles of model building in financial engineering. It explains those models as designs and working implementations for Java-based applications. The book provides software professionals with an accessible source of numerical methods or ready-to-use code for use in business applications. It is the first book to cover the topic of Java implementations for finance/investment applications and is written specifically to be accessible to software practitioners without prior accountancy/finance training. The book develops a series of packaged classes explained and designed to allow the financial engineer complete flexibility.

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Java Methods for Financial Engineering This book describes the principles of model building in financial engineering. It explains those models as designs and working implementations for Java-based applications. It is the first book to cover Java implementations for finance/investment applications.

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"This is a book that aims to provide software professionals with an accessible source of numerical methods and/or a ‘ready-to-use’ code for use in business applications. Anyone working in management sciences, in modeling or software development will want to peruse this text. ... ‘it is the first book to cover the topic of Java implementations for finance investment applications.’ The book sets out to describe the principles of model building in financial engineering and to explain those models as designs for Java-based applications." (C.J.H. Mann, Kybernetes, Vol. 37 (1), 2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1852338326
• ISBN 13: 9781852338329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 561