marineabcd

Terrance Tao had a great blog post somewhere on his google+ about how one of the most important things to do as a mathematician is learn to value partial progress on a problem. Coming to the start of my 4th year of undergrad it's advice I try to keep close to the heart whenever I feel like I did a problem all day and made no progress because there is always progress made even if it's crossing off a potential path to solve the problem. Definitely one of the hardest bits of doing maths in general.

Any advice for getting into the finance world for a pure maths student (taking my first finance related class next year)? and how did you find it once you were there? Were your maths skills useful too? I currently follow financial news and pharma stocks and program but have no experience as of yet.