‎'‎‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ a well organized and well written text‎.‎ The book ‎'‎does what it says on the cover‎'‎‎,‎ is written in plain English and I think is an excellent introductory text‎.‎ It will be useful to students from a wide range of backgrounds and an essential complement to the standard undergraduate course which embeds mathematical finance into probability theory‎.‎ Finally‎,‎ with it being studded with references‎,‎ it provides an easy entry into deeper material‎.‎‎'‎ Chris Barnett‎,‎ UK Nonlinear News ‎'‎ ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ this is a very accessible basic introduction to the subject and Des Higham‎'‎s unique writing style with many quotes and side remarks makes the reading even more enjoyable‎.‎‎'‎ L‎.‎ Grune‎,‎ Z‎.‎ Angew‎.‎ Math‎.‎ Mech‎.‎ ‎'‎A colleague and I use Desmond Higham‎'‎s financial options book in our Computational Finance and Applied Optimal ‎(‎stochastic‎)‎ Control courses as a very good computational reference‎,‎ but some of the motivations are very good too‎,‎ such as call‎-put parity and the Black‎-Scholes derivation‎.‎ Our students find it very helpful for its‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎