ODE's aspect for quant ?

[JOKER]

Hello, I have a question about ODE's.

In this semester I have to take ODE's course, which my teacher teaches ODE's only in the algebaric way (ie., no slope filed , no phase spaces/flows and other geometric view).

It's a correct way to learn ODE's for being quants ? or I should read more than what my teacher teaches.

Any respondence will be appreciated.
Thanks,

 

[Daniel Duffy]

ODEs come about when PDEs are discretised in the space (asset) variables. Then the focus is then how to solve ODEs, _numerically_.

It does no har to know the theory of ODEs, of course. But is it computational?