1. I need to do an Online/Distance Learning Course with credit/grades in Partial Diffrential Equation and Numerical Methods. Anyone who can suggest a site/univ2. One book for brushing up Mathematics (calculus et al) in the summer before a Financial Engineering course , which would also be a good refrence during the course

Hi prat, I'm currently looking for exactly the same.. Please let me know if you find something interesting..

Most universities have just published their course lists for the winter semester. A somewhat laborious search through each program will no doubt yield what you are looking for.For example, UCLA offer an Introduction to Calculus online courses for credit (description below).http://www.uclaextension.edu/index.cfm"This online course covers the different applications of both differential and integral calculus to representative problems characteristic of the public and private economic sectors. Major topics covered in differential calculus include optimization, applications of the first and second derivatives that will find the optimized and inflection values of various functions, integral calculus, and procedures for finding either area under one curve or between two curves..."If credit isn't essential & you don't mid self-study, the MIT OpenCourseWare program will no doubt have exactly what you are looking for.http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/i ... rds,Ashton