This page hosts information on Julio Backhoff's talk "What is … a problem in mathematical finance?" at the "What is …?" seminar. The talk will take place on Friday, June 1, 4pm at HU, RUD 25 1.023.
In this talk, we introduce stochastic financial models for both discrete time and continuous time and discuss some of their defining properties. Then we present some of the most relevant problems encountered in financial mathematics.