I'm in physics. I noticed while signing up for classes next

>>2785175
Business calculus teaches you how to trade crypto

>>2785175
Calculus for business students. It's like regular calculus 1, but it moves half as fast and all the test questions involve chugging beer

>>2785175
Financial mathematics is one big bogus. Don't touch it with a pole.

t. PhD student in pure maths

>>2785175

basic intro calculus with examples from the business world. most business majors can not pass calc 1.

>>2785194

financial engineering is based as fuck.

>>2785194
>>2785200
>muh change in slope
go fuck yourselves

reminder
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304096/Graduate-physics-PhD-31-fell-death-block-flats-taking-job-centre-qualified-for.html

>>2785175
In all seriousness business calculus is simply a simplified calculus course with examples drawn primarily from the business world.

>>2785194

Funnily enough, I'm doing a PhD in algebraic topology.

Financial maths is actually pretty interesting - stochastic calculus, time series, Markov chains, etc. Broad applications. Like most parts of maths, the deeper you get into it the more interesting it is.

Also I have buddies who unlike me decided to get a real job with a proper salary after graduating. Financial maths is a good thing to have if you want to make money.

>>2785733
>stochastic calculus
momentum indicators are a beautiful thing, you calc fags are alright, I was just joking

>>2785645
>t. brainlet

Calculus is so basic, I do it basically every day and don't think about it. I'm always surprised to remember that business students spend an entire semester figuring out what a derivative is.

>>2785733
have you ever used trig in what you do?

>>2785817
(in terms of applying it to charts)

>>2785776
What do you do? Nobody with an actual job computes derivatives, that's what matlab is for.

>>2785733
>Funnily enough, I'm doing a PhD in algebraic topology.

What's up mate. We're on the same boat then. What do you do exactly?
I do low dimensional topology, esp. in dimension 4. Working on cobordism groups of manifolds in smooth category.

>>2785733 here

>>2785824

My PhD has nothing to do with financial maths, I just know a bit about it. Anything cyclic and wave-based will make use of trig and specifically Euler's formula. You can describe things like random walks/Brownian motion using trig functions. The wikipedia article on Ito calculus is pretty good.

>>2785898
thanks, definitely taking a look into all you've mentioned

Hey guys who can calculate a second derivative? YOURE HIRED!!

>>2785868

That sounds amazing. I'm researching finite-dimensional Hopf algebras and locally compact T2 spaces. I imagine there must be some overlap.

I did my masters project on quantum groups because I liked group theory and I thought it would learn about quantum physics. Turns out quantum groups have fuckall to do with either physics or group theory. I'm stuck with them now though lol.

>tfw no Math PhD
>tfw can't become a quant and write ML algos to fuck over normies in the stock market for 200k a year
feels bad man

>>2786176
> math PhD
> 200k/year

lost

>>2786289
quants easily make 200k

they are a very small percentage of math PhDs though

>>2785997

Said no one, ever.

>>2785175
Business calc won't have trig functions in it, and less focus on e^x.

>>2786686
I'm not in business, but I did take Precalc. Isn't e useful in calculating interest?

>>2786744
compound interest is literally the reason it was created

>>2786331
No shit, 2nd derivative is too hard to just solve in an interview.

>>2786814
I'll assume you're being sarcastic otherwise your comment makes you look brainlet

>>2785867
Of course, but if you don't actually know ther concepts involved and work in something like R&D or engineering you are going to drop the ball majorly somewhere down the line

>>2787263
Uh, no sarcasm here, bud. 2nd order integrals are literally 2/3rds as hard as the fabled Triple Integral, which still has not been cracked to this day.