<p>Hi, everyone, i'm currently a high school student and I want to learn financial engineering when I go to business school. </p>
<p>I know it needs strong math skills and i'm confused of taking whether pure math or applied math in undergraduate for preparing of financial engineering in graduate school..</p>
<p>So, pure or applied??</p>
<p>Applied would be more applied. It’s mathematics for applications.</p>
<p>Pure mathematics is the study of mathematics as a science, you’ll delve into proof writing and such and minute details of what mathematics is and how it’s constructed or developed.</p>
<p>Applied is also pure math, because both are mathematics. It’s just that applied mathematics major doesn’t concern itself with non-applicable (note: non-applicable mathematics means it’s not known how it applies or how to apply it to something “real” or something else than mathematics itself) theoretical mathematics, where as pure mathematics does.</p>
<p>Thank you for replying my question, So I should probably do applied for financial engineering??</p>
<p>Both can do, but likely applied, if you’re strictly interested in applied math or the applications of mathematics, and not mathematics as just mathematics, i.e. pure math, in which case the question of applicability or the special concerns/limits in applications can generally be left open.</p>
<p>Definitely, applied math. Focus on things like probability, statistical models, and optimization theory.</p>