mathfin-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Mathematical Finance (Wiley) manuscript against the financial-mathematics frontier — stake the methodological contribution against prior stochastic-analysis, pricing, and control results, citing the precise theorem you sharpen, generalize, or supersede.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mathfin-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (mathfin-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The introduction reads as a survey rather than a precise contribution claim - Unsure which prior theorem your result generalizes, sharpens, or contradicts - A referee might say "this is already known under weaker/stronger assumptions" ## The Mathematical Finance positioning bar Because the journal prizes **methodological novelty and contribution to financial modelling**, positioning must be **theorem-level**, not topic-level. The reader (often a Bachelier Finance Society member steeped in stochastic analysis) wants to know exactly which assumptions you relax, which generality you add, or which open problem you close — and why earlier machinery was unable to. A vague "the literature has studied X" invites a desk concern about novelty. ## How to position 1. **Name the closest prior result** and its assumptions precisely (model class, regularity, filtration, market completeness). State what it *cannot* deliver. 2. **Locate your delta on one axis**: weaker assumptions, broader model class, sharper rate, constructive vs. existence-only, time-consistent vs. not, or a genuinely new object. 3. **Cite landmark ma
- When to trigger
- The Mathematical Finance positioning bar
- How to position
- Frontier strands and what positioning owes each
- Delta sentence scaffold
- Sibling-venue triangulation
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the mathfin-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Mathematical Finance (Wiley) manuscript against the financial-mathematics frontier — stake the methodological contribution against prior stochastic-analysis, pricing, and control results, citing the precise theorem you sharpen, generalize, or supersede.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mathfin-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.