Math or engineering background

[rathod]

Hello Friends, I am a new member. My name is Vikram and I am from India. I have done BE in Computers, I am very much interested in Mathematical Finance. It appears that you need pure math background for this and I have forgotten most of the maths that I did in my engineering, so to update/brush-up my maths do I go through this PATH 1: (1>Calculus, 2> Linear Algebra 3>ODE, 4> PDE, 5> Advanced Calculus, 6> Probability, 7> Statistics ) OR PATH 2: pick up a good book on Engineering Mathematics (Erwin) and then go for Monte Carlo Methods and c++ ?

 

[Daniel Duffy]

It appears that you need pure math background for this

Yes and no. Mostly you need applied maths.

 

[TobiAkin]

It appears that you need pure math background for this

Yes and no. Mostly you need applied maths.

Vikram from India? Pandit? Then you don't need to go through any math courses.

Apart joke, I'd suggest you to attend pure math courses and then switch to quantitative finance.

 

[rathod]

Thanks Tobi, thanks Daniel.

 

[DMD]

Hello Friends, I am a new member. My name is Vikram and I am from India. I have done BE in Computers, I am very much interested in Mathematical Finance. It appears that you need pure math background for this and I have forgotten most of the maths that I did in my engineering, so to update/brush-up my maths do I go through this PATH 1: (1>Calculus, 2> Linear Algebra 3>ODE, 4> PDE, 5> Advanced Calculus, 6> Probability, 7> Statistics ) OR PATH 2: pick up a good book on Engineering Mathematics (Erwin) and then go for Monte Carlo Methods and c++ ?

Path 1 doesn't seem like pure math it seems like applied math.

 

[rathod]

ddrolet, sorry for the inappropriate use of the word "pure", but my question was to choose between path 1 which includes more theory than path 2.
thanx.