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Udacity Applied Math Course

I watched the first unit and it seems to be at a very basic level and concentrate on physical and engineering applications of ODEs. I'll probably take my time with this one anyway, but mostly to practice some Python using stuff that I like (numerical methods, modelling). I'm yet to see how complex it gets later on, but as for now it seems that for real-life financial engineering one needs much more skill than this course covers...
 
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I was also disappointed with the first unit -- the physics/engineering focus didn't make it particularly salient for finance (but like you said, the Python practice was good). It looks like the latter units focus on more useful topics, though
 
I think this course would be better if you want to improve your numerical methods and related aspect. It seems mathematically more rigourous. I think it would be on the similar line as this.
 
Shantanu Kumar said:
I think this course would be better if you want to improve your numerical methods and related aspect. It seems mathematically more rigourous. I think it would be on the similar line as this.
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Now that the class has started, I'm having a hard time evaluating whether it's worth putting in the time -- how useful are these methods for differential equations for finance?
 
Zeuge said:
Now that the class has started, I'm having a hard time evaluating whether it's worth putting in the time -- how useful are these methods for differential equations for finance?
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I will have to say those are quite useful in the context of finance even though its not a full fledged course offered normally at university. But as the instructor said he is giving you all the available tools and later you can dive deep on your own.
 
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