While I knew most of materials of the course prior to taking it and it was relatively easy for me to pass all the assignments, I strongly recommend the course if you want to understand the main concepts of mathematical finance. It is very well balanced course, not overly difficult but not easy either. Optimal duration and size of the information for you to learn and understand. While, I barely used videos and mostly used slides, I find that Professor explains core concepts very nicely. This is one of the best courses I took on Coursera!

The course covers option pricing in discrete and continuous time models. The level of depth is engineering style: have an understanding and intuition of the concepts without mathematical rigor. There are some downsides however: The notes are not great with plenty of typos. The questions at the end of the section sometimes cover material barely (or not) covered and much of the material isn't covered at all in them. Sometimes they are hard to understand, needlessly convoluted and also contain typos. In the end I mostly ditched the course material, studied with Hull and then the did the exercises.

Great learning process, great videos, and great notes, but really, really hard work,

As a mathematician, this course is deep in some topics of Itô Calculus. The concepts are not hard, but the teacher reads the slides and are too much text, the claims or results which needs to be outlined, usually are not remarked as it should be. In general, this course has a good focus but the way in which is taught is not the correct one. The teacher reads slides, results are not well cleared as well as "proofs". Exercises are not scarce but nor is well explain enough to follow up.

it was fantastic course with useful curriculum. Moreover, the problem sets were challenging and shed light on some dark issues. I really appriciate the professor Cvitanic as well!

Great course! I just felt it went a bit too quickly towards the end, but its a great course nevertheless.

nice course and nice professor. More examples, would be better.

Great introductory course on option pricing, stochastic processes and other instruments used in mathematical finance. Prof. Cvitanic explains everything by providing a lot of details for carrying out calculations. That being said, the assignments are not easy, but have the right level of difficulty. In order to successfully complete them, my advice is to thoroughly derive every equation that was presented in the course. I now feel much more confident for further study of mathematical finance. Highly recommended, hvala vam Prof Cvitanic!

The course makes difficult stochastic differential equations manageable for people not familiar with them. It builds a solid foundation for stochastic process / model and application on option pricing models like Black-Scholes-Merton model. Don’t get me wrong it is still quite demanding even with multiple choice problems – imagine if you were to figure out and write down the equations yourself to be fully capable.

Really good course. Explains the topics mathematically, but also relates to real-world applications. He also included historical examples on how formulas were invented and why market crashes happened.

Really good foundational coverage of key option pricing concepts. Good additional industry knowledge + other relevant information such as implementation, history and context

highly informational on option pricing models and highly recommend

Great course! Detailed, step by step instructions!

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