An introduction to the basic theory of stochastic calculus and its applications. Examples are given throughout the text, in order to motivate and illustrate the theory and show its importance for many applications in e.g. economics, biology and physics. The basic idea of the presentation is to start from some basic results (without proofs) of the easier cases and develop the theory from there, and to concentrate on the proofs of the easier case in order to quickly progress to the parts of the theory that are most important for the applications. For the 6th edition the author has added further exercises and, for the first time, solutions to many of the exercises are provided.

This well-established textbook on stochastic differential equations has turned out to be very useful to non-specialists of the subject and has sold steadily in 5 editions, both in the EU and US market Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Agnès Sulem is a researcher at INRIA, Paris. She leads the MATHRISK research group and the Premia consortium for quantitative finance. She teaches in the doctoral programs at University Paris-Dauphine and Luxemburg University. Her fields of research are stochastic control, numerical and stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance. She is the author of 2 books and about 100 research articles. Besides mathematics, Agnès Sulem enjoys playing the violin. Bernt Øksendal is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo (UiO) and associate professor and Honorary Doctor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He was awarded the Nansen Prize in 1996 and the UiO Research Prize in 2014. His interests are in stochastic analysis, stochastic control and applications, especially in biology and finance. He has over 200 publications, including 10 books. His other interests and pleasures include jogging, music, science and nature.

Inhalt
Some Mathematical Preliminaries.- Itô Integrals.- The Itô Formula and the Martingale Representation Theorem.- Stochastic Differential Equations.- The Filtering Problem.- Diffusions: Basic Properties.- Other Topics in Diffusion Theory.- Applications to Boundary Value Problems.- Application to Optimal Stopping.- Application to Stochastic Control.- Application to Mathematical Finance.