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m8 lost you at the first sentence tbh and this, "Adv Maths is not beyond the intellectual capacity of someone doing well in finc" is the best joke i've heard all day That's why there are so many open problems in Finance that can't be solved and haven't been solved for hundreds of years and...

The questions should be irrelevant, it's the content - what we're actually learning that is important. And as it stands, the concepts in finance are easy to learn. There's a reason why Jane Street - a financial trading firm - hires maths students, and seeks them out. If they don't know any...

Maths courses are a lot harder - in general - than finance courses. That's the point I was trying to make. The maths that nerd posted one page or so ago? That's week 1 stuff in a second year linear models course. Trebla's integration? That's a bit more difficult but nothing extremely so...

False belief of superiority? lolwat If you believe that, then you belittle the difficulty of the mathematics that the engineers (and especially the maths students) have to do - and that's a big red flag. If I get 75 in a finance course but then get 90 in a maths course - what does that say...

it's called 'apathy' Besides, I can learn pretty much all the financial theory I'll ever need for a job on the fly. Can the HD finance people learn all the mathematics they'll need for some of the mathematical modelling or data analysis on the fly? Nope.

so he will wear a silver band with some childish slogan about pixels that don't actually exist but won't accept a real, tangible gift that actually has some meaning? *slow clap* is your boyfriend like 12 years old or something

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Re: UNSW Chit Chat Thread 2015. It's paid at the same rate as Maple Consulting ;) https://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/salaries/casacsal.html

yeah well that's super dodgy I hope you ripped into them in the course evaluation

And were there any mathematical prerequisites for these courses to ensure you were thoroughly prepared for the differentiation/optimisation, integration, algebra, series and statistics? Or did they just chuck the stuff in the course and you had to sink or swim

I hope you ripped into them on their evaluation for that

See that's third year level though, I'd think by the time the person gets up to that, even with 2u maths, it should be fine. Plus it's not like they go into that much rigour in financial maths anyway - from my experience it's "yeah this formula is correct - use it" I highly doubt they'd start...

the highest I did was 2624 After that infamous lecture, I chatted to another maths student about it, and he said, "Yeah dude, this is third year finance in a nut-shell: rearrange equation, plug number in, round it to 2 decimal places or whatever" :cold: can't believe i wasted my time on that

I did finance before... remember the good ol' Comm/Adv Maths days? There's only so much I can take of an entire lecture being devoted on how to get rid of logarithms in your equation to solve for time or whatever Point is: it's easy.

Re: UNSW Chit Chat Thread 2015. Actually might also be staff members since I'm technically a member of staff (maple consulting)

Re: UNSW Chit Chat Thread 2015. 1131/1141 Since there's about max 1500 of those they would have to mark Only available to Honours students and I guess people they like because I'm not even doing Honours yet though Peter Brown and I are best buddies so maybe that's it :p

Re: UNSW Chit Chat Thread 2015. Yeah I got an email asking if I wanted to help mark some of the maffs papers They have a room set up and it's super organised

can you plug numbers into equations can you re-arrange equations to solve for variables do you know how to round numbers That is the level of maths you need for finance. It's a joke.

Re: WAM Prediction Thread yeah... they tightened up the rules so I can't do that anymore I'll be taking my 5 honours courses next year - one in summer school, and then two in Sem 1 and then two in Sem 2

Re: WAM Prediction Thread Next year is Honours :p need to finish it all this year, hence overload next semester thank you economics school