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<t>I can tell you what it looks like from my point of view (I study maths and have several friends in PhD programmes or doing very well in undergraduate, I myself interviewed for a couple of quant positions at BBs)The best undergraduates in maths tend to either be completely focused on research or t...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: GamalQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19I thought you were talking about maths in general when you said:"Of course, it is. Maths in practice reduces to proving theorems formulated long time ago, you only play with assumptions and unimportant details of the proofs. Som...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: GamalQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19QuoteOriginally posted by: GamalNicole El Karoui never been heard of in most maths departments?Are you sure you work in mathematical finance?there is a lot more to maths than mathematical finance.In the research centre I'm worki...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: GamalNicole El Karoui never been heard of in most maths departments?Are you sure you work in mathematical finance?there is a lot more to maths than mathematical finance.In the research centre I'm working in now I'm quite sure noone has ever heard of her.anyway, you conf...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: GamalQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19and you think this has to do with the fact that Finance is a more challenging subject than Maths?I agree with Devon on the availability of problems to solve in science, but then again the greatest mathematicians will all work on...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976QuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976Yeah right. If a Finance PhD claims to be an expert in Physics or Math, everyone would think that it was some kind of joke. But when all these Math PhDs claim to be experts in Fina...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976Yeah right. If a Finance PhD claims to be an expert in Physics or Math, everyone would think that it was some kind of joke. But when all these Math PhDs claim to be experts in Finance, that we are expected to take seriously.come on, you are not seriously co...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Jim> What I like is the problem solving side of the job, putting togheter what you have and the client's needs to get the best solution, given several constraints (regulators, internal limits, reputational considerations etc).I don't think you have a very good picture o...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: rmaxQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19From the little I have seen in the financial industry it looked very interesting to me. How so? Have you spoken to anyone in the Finance Industry? If you mean it is well paid - it can be, but it also can be boring as hell if you ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976You can try to tackle a topic in Game Theory (multi-player games with Bounded Rationality and Incomplete Information) or in Decision Theory under Risk and Uncertainty. The problems are much more interesting than what you would get in Empirical Finance or Co...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19I have given up on doing a PHD as I don't think I'm good enough to approach any interesting and important problem in maths.those who do the best PhDs aren't always the same people who everyone thought were super-smart as under...

<t>I have given up on doing a PHD as I don't think I'm good enough to approach any interesting and important problem in maths.I would still like to do a job where I could use my analytical skills though.At the moment I have two offers from BB IB for a summer internship:credit hybrids and exotic trad...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: EBalQuoteOriginally posted by: foxkingdomQuoteOriginally posted by: EBalAm I missing something because it sounds too easy? You have to find the number of sequences consisting of n-1 zeroes and n-1 ones. The answer is obviouslyI never said it's difficult. Yesterday someo...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ErrrbQuoteOriginally posted by: gianluca19 QuoteOriginally posted by: edouardhere (in France) on TV they say this isn't clear who/which organization carried out this attack in Brindisi.is that so?i am in the uk at the moment but the italian medias have no idea of who co...