<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: celicara29QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: celicara29QuoteOriginally posted by: WilfridQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelI say, my dear chap, that would be frightfully ghastly, what ?Awfully so, old bea...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: celicara29QuoteOriginally posted by: WilfridQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelI say, my dear chap, that would be frightfully ghastly, what ?Awfully so, old bean.Well I'll say, that is quite ghaaaastly, sir.I say, old boy, that does ...

QuoteOriginally posted by: WilfridQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelI say, my dear chap, that would be frightfully ghastly, what ?Awfully so, old bean.Well I'll say, that is quite ghaaaastly, sir.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCEven in the arts graduate affected British maths syllabus, calculus is something you start at 16 smarter kids may get it at 14, someone who's reached university without doing calculus has only the most tiny chance of getting into quant finance. It is the case that d...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: TopologistWhat is Precal? I know what is stands for, but what is the syllabus more or less?I'm not completely sure, I think it's sort of a warmup for calculus. I took it in high school, but the teacher was an idiot who liked sitting in her desk all day more than teachin...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCWhy do returns follow a roughly lognormal distribution, lots of possibilities, why not them ?Why do people buy Bermudan options ?The Vasicek model goes wrong in several quite bad ways, why does it get used anyway ?Why would you pick finite difference over monte carl...

The math being too advanced, I can partially agree with. I can "get it", just haven't learned it yet. However, the finance part, I understand the finance concepts in all of these books.

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: jawabeanto b honest, Hull's too early. the most u can get from his book, at this stage, is an illusion of understanding something.In which respect, the math, or the finance part? to indigo:Right now I have the Hull book and <AMAZON id="1932495088" url="http://www.amazon...

<t>Yeah I read something similar to that in that Bret Jiu guy's book, but that was after I ordered it.I'm sure it'll be fine though, I'm starting with Precalculus and will move on to calculus of course and then I'll be able to understand the book pretty well I imagine. I've taken calculus before but...

<t>Ok thanks I'll look into that as well My Hull book finally arrived, I'm pretty excited about that. But whether or not I'll understand any of it, that's another question altogether. I also got a Precalculus book so I can get on a calculus level, I remember some from Calculus but nothing from preca...

<r>So I delved a little deeper into this link for the BS in CECS: <URL url="http://louisville.edu/speed/cecs/new_web/programs/bs/index.shtml"><LINK_TEXT text="http://louisville.edu/speed/cecs/new_we ... ndex.shtml">http://louisville.edu/speed/cecs/new_web/programs/bs/index.shtml</LINK_TEXT></URL> (c...

Well then what are the math courses I definitely should be taking, aside from the ones sriharsha has already mentioned? I'll take a look at your thread again maelo

<r>Well, I posted a link to the CECS curriculum at Louisville Speed Engineering school, that might answer your question about the type of maths. I'll be keeping what you've said about math vs CS in mind and doing some more research, I've found this which looks like a step in the right direction. <UR...

<t>Sri was right when he said it gives me something to fall back on, that's why I'm doing it (as well as because I enjoy programming). I do want to be a quant, and I've set that as my goal. But that doesn't mean it will be feasible, that doesn't mean that when I land a job that I wont hate it. That ...

There's always the possibility of a minor in math, that way I could get all the math courses I would need to be able to keep up with the MFE, right?