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Title: Stochastic calculus for finance
Additional book information: Springer Finance Textbook Series, in two volumes, Vol. I: The binomial asset pricing model, Steven E. Shreve, Springer, New York, 2005, x + 187 pages, ISBN 978-0387-24968-1, $34.95$; 2004, x + 550 pages, ISBN 0-387-40101-6, $69.95$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Darrell Duffie
    Affiliation: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5015
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 165-174
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01217-2
    Published electronically: August 28, 2008
    Additional Notes: I am grateful for conversations with Julien Hugonnier and Philip Protter, for decades worth of interesting discussions with Mike Harrison, and also for the patient encouragement of the editor, Bob Devaney.
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.