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Financial Maths and Risk

This topic is about how uncertainty changes growth and risk.

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Financial maths and risk connects growth, randomness, modelling and decision making under uncertainty.

The goal here is not financial advice; it is mathematical literacy about uncertainty, modelling and risk.

Explore this through compound growth, volatility and long-term behaviour, risk, return, correlation and diversification, random walks and simple market models.

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