Ready to exercise those brain cells? Humans have been having fun with mathematics for thousands of years. Along the way, they've discovered the amazing utility of this field—in science, engineering, finance, games of chance, and many other aspects of life. This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues.

Mathematics has spread its influence far beyond the realm of numbers. The concepts and methods of mathematics are crucially important to all of culture and affect the way countless people in all spheres of life look at the world.

The book covers basic interest, NPV, IRR, bond calculations and stripping, floating rate securities, swaps, forwards, futures, foreign exchange, option pricing, valuation methods, leasing and basic statistics.The book does a good job of outlining each concept before explaining how it is used in excel. The author s major contribution is showing how to organize the model layout so that inputs, calculations and model outputs can be easily seen and changed saving time and decreasing model errors.

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