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Title: Excellent introduction to option pricing
Review: Shreve's book is an excellent introduction to basic options pricing. He not only deals with plain vanilla options, but also shows how the binomial model can be used to to value exotic options. Each chapter has exercises which not only apply what is taught but force you to think and ensure that you really understand it.Little more than basic algebra is required to understand the text, making it very accessible. His expositions of topics such as martingales, markov processes, etc. are very good. The text can be dense, though--there's a great deal of information.In short, if you want an introduction of how options can be priced without the partial differential equations in the Black-Scholes model, this is an excellent choice.
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