In classic mathematical finance, a trader's actions have no direct influence on the asset price. For small trades this is a reasonable assumption, but large trades fire back at the underlying price. We consider a transient ...

The intention of this thesis is to give a better understanding of the way that subduction zones evolve, to examine the way that different subduction parameters affect each other and finally to demonstrate how visualization ...

Due to regulation reasons, life insurance undertakings have long been struggling with interest rate variations. In the post-financial-crisis era, most life insurance firms in Western countries are facing two major challenges, ...

An examination of the abridged notation introduced by Salmon for plane geometry. Culminating in its use to prove the theorems of Brianchon and Pascal, Steiner's theorem on Pascal's Hexagon and Steiner's solution of the ...

The first part of the thesis concerns the problem of ranking in general. We take a closer look at the two ranking methods; Elo rating and Colley rating. The former is used to rate and rank chess players, whereas the latter ...

One of the puzzlingly hard problems in \emph{Computer Aided Geometric Design} and \emph{Approximation Theory} is that of finding the dimension of the spline space of $C^r$ piecewise polynomials of degree $n$ over a planar ...