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Anonymous Wed Aug 26 04:56:08 2015 No.7490870 [Reply] [Original]

Undergraduate starting a Finance major next year. I was wondering if /sci/ could give me a list of "pre-requisite" mathematical knowledge I should get down before I start. The University wasn't much help.

I'm learning some Algebra at the moment, I don't need to be spoonfed specific sites I figured KhanAcademy would be good, but what sort of stuff should I learn/get down? I don't live in the US if it makes any difference.

Thanks guys, have a good night.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:06:17 2015 No.7490885 I suggest you learn statistics. It's not technically a "pre-requisite" because they will teach you what you need to know, but statistics is very difficult if you only know "what you need" rather than why it works.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:07:49 2015 No.7490888 Wait, wait, wait... you're learning algebra? fucking lol. LITERALLY ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:13:07 2015 No.7490896 Which country

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:14:10 2015 No.7490898 >>7490870 >Finance major Literally the worst major to go into finance with.

Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:17:54 2015 No.7490901

>>7490888
Not learning as much as brushing up on it, knew the basics but was a bit unsure on some of the less elementary stuff

>>7490898
yeah I've heard this, really not sure what else to major in as although I respect econ just aren't keen on it, and accounting makes me want to end it

Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:20:36 2015 No.7490904

>>7490870
>but what sort of stuff should I learn/get down

For mathematical finance you need at least

HS Algebra
Trigonometry
Calculus
Linear Algebra
Ordinary Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations
Numerical Analysis
Real Analysis
Measure Theory
Probability Theory
Statistics

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 05:40:12 2015 No.7490926 >>7490901 Applied mathematics or experimental physics or some shit. To prove that you can actually crunch those numbers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 06:37:44 2015 No.7490983 >>7490926 Maths isnt good enough for anything like that, figured finance would be a good challenge for me, respect for people that do that STEM shit because its not for me lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 06:45:27 2015 No.7490990 >>7490888 Get off your high horse; everybody starts somewhere. Also, trips

OHP Wed Aug 26 10:45:17 2015 No.7491243

>>7490888
And what are you learning, asshole? There is not some dichotomy of mathematics students, where the more experienced are allowed to belittle the lesser. Even the experts that are at the top of their field know next to nothing compared to what knowledge is out there waiting, and if we work together and learn together, more and more of that knowledge will become accessible. Everybody is in a different place with what they know, and we all have one thing in common: a desire to learn even more. Your attitude is a disease that has been plaguing the academic community for far too long.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 10:49:29 2015 No.7491245 >>7490904 Time Series would probably be the icing on the cake

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 10:58:04 2015 No.7491253 File: 102 KB, 550x495, 1410008702828.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7490904 >finance >sticking shit in spread sheets and multiplying by 5% >partial differential equations

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 11:05:01 2015 No.7491263 >>7491253 >What is a financial engineer Sure am glad you know what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 11:41:01 2015 No.7491326 >>7491263 >Implying a Finance undergrad as anything remotely to do with Financial Engineering Sure am glad you know what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 11:50:29 2015 No.7491335 >>7491243 You should post that on every thread on this board

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 11:51:48 2015 No.7491337 >>7490904 Time series and econometrics are far more useful than analysis

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 11:58:50 2015 No.7491343 >>7491243 shut the fuck up nerd fuck sake is wrong with you people

Anonymous Thu Aug 27 00:41:18 2015 No.7492616

>>7491326
Except you didn't say finance undergraduate. You said finance in general. Not every person in the field is some frat boy who gets a job with daddy's connections and can barely value an option or work a pivot table. That's why your comment was stupid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 27 01:45:27 2015 No.7492674 >>7492616 Are you seriously this dense? >>7490870 > Undergraduate starting a Finance major next year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 27 01:57:42 2015 No.7492677 >>7491243 Ah yes, good. Finally there's a little wisdom on this board.

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