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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Q: Math in Financial World
- Message-ID: <1323@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:45:14 GMT
- References: <8400002@acf3.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <8400002@acf3.NYU.EDU> wut@acf3.NYU.EDU (Tom Wu) writes:
- >
- > Hi. This is my first posting on this net, and it looks
- >like all of you here have a very high mathematical background.
- >I am currently a Junior in college, majoring in economics, and
- >minoring in math.
- > I am wondering if there is someone on this net who is
- >working on the financial market( equity, bonds, f/x). I've heard
- >that in order to be a top notch analyst, one has to obtain a
- >Phd degree in Math, probabily in statistics. Is this true? Could
- >someone tell me what kinds of mathematical subjects are useful?
- >And is there really a need to go beyond a MBA or a MA?
-
- The need is not so much to go beyond the MBA as to avoid it. The MBA
- looks like a good idea only when you see people who have one doing well
- in technical finance. Most of these are _extremely_ smart people who
- would do twice as well with a math degree.
-
- Yes, if you want to be a top notch analyst, you will need a math Ph.D.
- or something pretty close to it, like Physics, EE, etc. But right now
- you should make sure you try and skew your undergrad program to look
- as much like you are majoring in pure and applied math. You are at a
- quite good school for applied math (NYU/Courant) and there are tons of
- people there who could help. In fact, there are a couple of guys in the
- Econ. department who could be very helpful to you.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-
- N.B. I am an analyst with a math Ph. D. working in the financial world.
-