Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formulas - c and p denote European Call and Put options
where
S = Stock price
X = Strike price of option
r = Risk-free interest rate
T = Time of expiration in years
Black-Scholes PDE
Black-Scholes option value can be found by solving the Black-Scholes partial differentation equation (PDE). The PDE is
The Black-Scholes formula is a closed-form solution to this PDE given the payoff function of a plain vanilla option