Book Description
Solutions Manual for Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, Sixth Edition by John Hull
Customer Reviews:
Good.......2007-09-14
The book was in great condition. It took only five days to get the book.
The greatest concise reference for the fundamentals of financial engineering.......2007-05-30
Whilst this text was not a recommended text for my Australian investments course, it was more useful than any other reference material prescribed by my professional body and proved more than its value over the space of just a few weeks. I encourage especially those that may be sitting on the fence, thinking it is a lot of money (because it is), that this text is worth every cent if you are in need of the best derivatives pricing book that exists today - this is it.
Solid textbook.......2007-05-08
This textbook has been very helpful for my financial instruments class (MBA level). Good examples and explanation of formulas.
Good Book Humayun R Ali.......2007-03-01
I am in the first few chapters and finding the book easier to read than other financial books. I like the examples to explain the purpose of futures and options. The first few chapters introduce you to futures and options then gets into more advanced topics. I also got the student study guide. There are certain books that are well worth the price, this is one of them. It is not a "get rich quick" guide, but rather a book designed to give the reader an in depth understanding.
A PhD student's review.......2007-02-07
Like all too many PhD students trying to push their way into the already overcrowded quant. finance job-space, I too had heard that Hull is the "bible" of quant. finance, and it should be the first book you should read.
WRONG. Dead wrong. Hull should be the LAST book you should read, and I mean it literally. That is, you definitely SHOULD read Hull, but after reading some good quant. finance books and getting some intuition behind what is going on.
The good parts of Hull are:
1) breadth of topics covered - there is no other single book that covers the range of topics that Hull does.
2) some amount of feel of real markets that it gives (all this means is that it describes the mechanics of markets).
For someone just starting out learning quant. finance, however, the above two become big stumbling blocks. The breadth of topics means that several topics are covered in a, and I am being kind, patchy manner. In fact, you can go through quite a lot of Mr. Hull's babble about "worlds" (something he uses interchangeably for "measure") without understanding whatever the heck a risk-neutral measure is. There are risk-neutral worlds, forward-neutral worlds, stock-worlds...and you don't know the underlying simple, simple principle, so you just keep following him, and he goes on and on...
Another example - Black's formula in fixed income products - he just goes on and on about its applications to this that and the other (bond options, swaptions...), discusses the "validity of Black's formula" (which supposedly tells you that it is more general that it is usually believed to be, but tells you neither how general it is, nor how general it is believed to be)...All this without giving you the simple, one sentence reasoning behind the Black formula.
Time and again in the book there are formulae that seem to be just pulled out of thin air. There are better compilations of formulae (Haug, for example), so I don't quite understand what the idea is. You keep wondering HOW a valuation formula came about, because you want to know what assumptions lie behind that valuation, and how to change it if some of those assumptions change...But as frequently as not, you will be left turning pages in the vain hope of trying to find out.
Add to that a poorly composed index, ill defined terms sprinkled all over the book, hand-waving galore, and it equates to hours of frustration. Just understanding clearly what is being talked about takes a lot of page turning, searching for definitions and so on.
And don't go by people who look down folks wanting to be precise. I am not talking about any ivory tower precision - I am talking about real, practical precision. The precision you need in a book to be able to answer a non-rote question properly. That precision is not there in most of Hull.
Customer Reviews:
Sale for a good cause.......2005-09-15
It was a pleasure to purchase this item from an organization doing such good work in the community.I got a quick response to my questions, too.
Book Description
Authored by Brent and Sheila Iverson, University of Texas, Austin, this comprehensive manual contains detailed solutions to all in-text and end-of-chapter problems. The best way for students to understand and learn the concepts of organic chemistry is to work multiple relevant and interesting problems on a daily basis. With this guide, the authors help students achieve a deeper intuitive understanding of the material through constant reinforcement and practice. The result will be much better preparation for in-class quizzes and tests, as well as the national standardized tests such as the DAT and MCAT. The solutions manual provides instant feedback by giving not only answers, but also detailed explanations.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2007-09-11
The book has signs of wear and tear, but other than that the book was great. With a better price than any bookstore can offer who could pass it up?
You cannot say "No.".......2007-01-04
Without this book, you are pretty much on your own when you are reading the main text. All the problems are solved clearly. Just reading it as a textbook can give you extra tips on somethings that you might have skipped in the book. Sometimes, you might get confused. Well, it is just chemistry. Read carefully.
Book Description
Provides complete solutions for all odd-numbered "Questions" and "Exercises" in the text. Uses the same solutions methods as examples in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Great Buy.......2005-09-24
This was a last minute purchase for school and the book was shipped quickly and arrived on time.
Absolutely necessary for O Chem!.......2005-07-11
if you're taking o chem, then you need this book. the summaries are helpful for review of chapters or in the worst case scenario, in substitution of the chapters. but the most important part of this book are the solutions to the problems. the only way you'll learn organic chemistry, like it or not, is by practicing problems. this solutions manual is the only way to know if you're doing those problems correctly - the text book does NOT contain solutions for problems in the book, beside the worthlessly easy ones contained directly in the chapters. in addition to the solution, it contains an explanation for all problems that require one.
THIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY! you won't be disappointed. if anything, go in on it with a friend that is also taking the course. you WILL need this book.
study guide.......2000-05-15
i think it's quite helpful and gives you some " experience" and more confidence before dealing directly with the exams themselves.!
the questions make you more acquainted with what types of questions u might expect for the exams..and thus you hve more chances of doing better!
Customer Reviews:
Really Fast.......2007-10-09
The book was delivered the second day after booked on the net, and in a fair price.
Operating compatability.......2007-09-15
A well priced product and from its description ideal for lecture purposes.
Unfortunately it does not work using Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime or Open Source media player on my computer using Windows XP.
Amazon returns system worked well with full refund but I would have liked a version that worked.
review on STUDY GUIDE.......2005-10-10
after being utterly discusted with this poor excuse of a study guide, i thought i would read some horrible reviews on the guide to make me feel better. to my dismay, people can't read and they only posted reviews for the text book, which is actually good but those reviews should be posted elsewhere.
You know there is something wrong with this guide when you see them call CH3-CH3 methane (pg 3 not to mention they got linoleic and linolenic mixed up) or on the multiple choice on page 19 has ribosomes as one of the right answers for proteins involved in transcription.
i have not done a lot of the questions in the book and all ready i see errors on every second page. i wonder if i will actually recieve lower grades if i study from this poorly written book.
I love study guides and have used them for stewert's calculus, campbell's biology and bruice's organic chemistry in college. were there some occasional mistakes... yes but overall they were good. this study manual however seems to have been written by a tribe of wild monkeys pounding on a keyboard. Save your 23 dollars
Inferior in every way.......2005-08-18
The Alberts text (Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fourth Edition) is superior to this text in every way. It is clearer, more precise, and contains more information. This one manages to make simple concepts become quite difficult.
Excellent but starting to get outdated.......2005-03-06
Excellent. Hands down the best book out there for cell biology. Gives a thorough look at the exciting unraveling of the cell. Figures are exceptional. However, being now ~3 years old and due to the intense output and growth of scientific literature this book is starting to get outdated. There have been several advances in a number of transport systems (i.e. Nuclear transport and regulation of gene expression). A new edition in the next year or so would hopefully address these issues.
Book Description
This Student Solutions Manual, written by Jeffery A. Cole, contains detailed solutions to the odd-numbered exercises in each chapter section, review section, True-False Quiz, and Focus on Problem Solving section. Also included are solutions to all Concept Check questions. Use of the solutions manual ensures that students learn the correct steps to arrive at an answer. This solutions manual covers chapters 1-8.
Customer Reviews:
Solutions.......2007-02-20
The solutions in this book are very straight forward and helpful. Unfortunately the book doesn't have even answers or solutions...Drat.
calculus solutions.......2007-02-13
This solutions manual helps explain how to solve odd numbered problems from the textbook by the same name. It is helpful, but some of the solutions skip steps in how to solve the equations. They assume that you can make the leaps of understanding on your own, which is sometimes disagreeable. If I have to look in the solutions manual because I don't know how to solve a problem, there is a good chance that I would like to see all of the correct steps.
Book Description
Prepared by Bruce Swenson of Adelphi University, the student solutions manual provides detailed solutions to the end of chapter problems. The author’s involvement in the completion of the Solutions Manual ensures consistency between the solution approaches in the examples featured within the text and those presented in the manual. This manual is available bundled with the text for students to purchase by permission of the instructor.
Customer Reviews:
on time and in good shape.......2007-06-11
book was in good shape and was received timely
Customer Reviews:
MY LIFESAVER.......2006-09-04
I highly recommend getting this book, and if you have to choose between this book and the text, get this one. Science is step-by-step problem solving, not just reading paragraphs of words.
This book takes all the even-numbered problems in the text and goes through them step-by-step with explanations, like a teacher would on a board. Becuase there are many problems of the same kind, you can do the odd-numbered ones easily after reading through the even-numbered ones.
I got a 4.0 in the class, and I never bought the textbook. I only had this book. I used it extensively for studying for the exams, and for working on homework problems. I just borrowed the textbook from the library when I needed it (for example, getting the homework problems).
Opening this book is like turning to your own personal Chemistry professor.
Not really what I was looking for.......2006-09-01
Its interesting to note that this solution's manual only has the answers to the evens. A much earlier version of this solution's manual has all of the answers. Why was it changed? I have no idea. But the change was definatly not a good thing. Especially, if since my teacher keeps giving me the odd problems
It helps me a lot!.......2006-04-12
Although the author said in the book that this book is not a brief from the main text book and you should mainly read the main text book before readind this solution manual, I found that I could understand it even though I didn't read the main text book at all. It did help me reduce my valuable time. I could use that reduced time to read all other textbook for other many subjects.
Student Solution Manual to Accompany Chemistry.......2006-03-22
I found this very helpful. The solutions were worked out and easily understood. I would have liked solutions to all questions.
Book Description
This Student Solutions Manual for CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY is your ideal homework companion in your general chemistry course. It contains detailed solutions to selected end-of-chapter Study Questions found in the text. To ensure your understanding, solutions match the problem-solving strategies used in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Not incredibly helpful........2007-10-01
Plenty of the problems in this solutions manual have significant figure errors. A few times they forget to actually write in the answer after showing the work they did. I find that some of the problems (especially with equations that need to be algebraically manipulated) are solved in strange ways that are hard to follow. For example, instead of taking the original equation and solving for the desired variable, it substitutes all of the known information and then does the algebra. I find that if I actually try to solve a problem this way, I will almost always make an error. Sometimes the manual just skips steps, or leaves out explanations when it shouldn't.
On the bright side, when I am doing the study problems at the end of a chapter, instead of having to save my place in the book and check my answers in the back, I can leave the page open and check my answers in the solutions manual. Hardly worth the fifty bucks.
I've had better .......2007-09-29
Those of you who have taken Chemistry know that it's not the easiest class in the world. That is why I went online and bought this solution manual. However, I wouldn't waste my freakin money on it if I were you. It doesnt show crap in it. In fact, the back of my book shows more of a solution than this thing does. I like solution manuals that explain everything, this one assumes you already know what you are doing, which contradicts the purpose of the damn thing.
Excellent condition and good text.......2007-01-06
I am really happy with this book. It helped me with hard problems.
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