"We can't find qualified employees"

[tttppp]

First, I totally agree that calculus in a pure form is relatively worthless to finance. So, in the sense that you're expected to find by hand some derivative of some wicked cluster of digits, decimal places, and variables, I totally agree. That's not particularly valuable to a financier. In application, where you're solving some problem or running a model, calculus is incredibly valuable. Actually, I'm 99.999999% sure my calc class started with finding the relationship between revenue, costs, and profits with calculus. That's like calc -100 level.

You were just tricked by context. I was too. I'll be the first to admit that I got clobbered by calc/stats as a standalone science, but in application to financial problems where there was context that I could actually understand, it made perfect sense.

Unfortunately my calculus class never used meaningful examples, which would have given me a better understanding of its usefulness. Additionally, my finance classes never used calculus. Maybe there's some value in calculus out there for finance, but its not necessary. I never was taught calculus in finance and I was able to master the technicals of finance. Actually, even many of the finance formulas we were taught, turned out to be worthless when valuing real companies. But thats just our education system. The vast majority of our education centers around stuff we'll never use.

 

[green73]

You're the same guy who thinks not reading libertarian books automatically makes you anti-libertarian and disqualifies you from running for president.

Never said that. That was the product of your fallacious reasoning.

 

[tttppp]

Never said that. That was the product of your fallacious reasoning.

Thats total bullshit. Thats exactly what you implied.

 

[JohnRego]

Actually a lot of math ignores physics, which is my biggest complaint about math. There is plenty of math that doesn't apply at all to the real world.