An elementary introduction to modelling with Ito integral or stochastic differential equations, without burdening the reader with a great deal of measure theory. Applications are taken from stochastic finance. In particular, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula is derived.

An elementary introduction to modelling with Ito integral or stochastic differential equations, without burdening the reader with a great deal of measure theory. Applications are taken from stochastic finance. In particular, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula is derived.