STAT 5604 [0.5 credit] (MAT 5173) Stochastic Analysis
Introduction to stochastic processes from a non-measure theoretic point of view. Conditional expectation. Brownian motion, Gaussian processes, martingales. Wiener and Itô integrals with respect to Brownian motion. Itô formula. Stochastic differential equations. Applications to financial mathematics, the Black-Scholes formula.