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Martin Sleziak
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Intuition and/or visualisation of Itô integral/Itô's lemma

Riemann-sums can e.g. be very intuitively visualized by rectangles that approximate the area under the curve. See e.g. Wikipedia:Riemann sum.

The Itô integral has due to the unbounded total variation but bounded quadratic variation an extra term (sometimes called Itô correction term). The standard intuition for this is a Taylor expansion, sometimes Jensen's inequality.

But normally there is more than one intuition for a mathematical phenomenon, e.g. in Thurston's paper, "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics", he gives seven different elementary ways of thinking about the derivative.

My question
Could you give me some other intuitions for the Itô integral (and/or Itô's lemma as the so called "chain rule of stochastic calculus"). The more the better and from different fields of mathematics to see the big picture and connections. I am esp. interested in new intuitions and intuitions that are not so well known.

vonjd
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