V4.0 Compatibility (Financial Derivatives book)
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- Subject: [mg18645] V4.0 Compatibility (Financial Derivatives book)
- From: william.shaw at nomura.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:45:40 -0400
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Dear MathGroup, I have sent the following notices to various places on the net: ****************************************************************** Modelling Financial Derivatives with Mathematica: Mathematica V4 Compatibility, Errata, and other Update Information ****************************************************************** A Mathematica notebook, compatible with versions 3.X and 4.0, is available that updates the material contained in the text, "Modelling Financial Derivatives with Mathematica." It contains (a) a number of code patches to ensure compatibility with Mathematica V4.0; (b) errata to the published version (as of July 1, 1999); (c) other comments on interesting recent research. This is available to download either from the CUP web site (www.cup.cam.ac.uk/052159233X) or from www.mathsource.com, from August 1999. The CUP site also contains an extract from a review published in the March 1999 issue of "RISK". (end of notice) Early V4 adopters may find one or two things of interest here whether or not they are working on Finance. In particular, there are several changes in V4 which cause code that plays nicely with V3 to break. Notably: (i) there is a compiler change which requires more variables to be initialized than was required in V3; (ii) there is a change to the way Integrate formats its output (that in my view is a BUG!) which causes outputs to be inadequetely simplified; (iii) the Fourier and Laplace transform packages now have different default conventions (2 Pi's have relocated) Anyone in a hurry can get it direct from me. William william.shaw at nomura.co.uk Dr. William T. Shaw Quantitative Analysis Group Nomura House 1 St. Martin's le Grand London EC1A 4NP Tel: 0171-521-3618 Fax: 0171-521-3676