This book teaches financial engineering the way it ought to be taught: as tools and a way of thinking to solve problems. Projects and simulations are not just exercises in this book, but its heart and soul. You as the reader, whether a student or a practitioner, will not only gain the intuition and expertise to be able to answer general complex questions about risk and finance, you will also learn how to make reasonable inferences based on incomplete information, thus making you extraordinarily valuable to banks, brokerage houses, trading floors, and hedge funds.