Many people only realize after turning thirty that the gap is often laid early on.
What's the use of studying mathematics?
A few days ago, I was chatting with a junior who works in quantitative trading. He now does high-frequency trading and risk modeling on Wall Street, and quite a few people in his team are from top American universities, Ivy League undergraduates, and graduate students in statistics or applied mathematics.
He said studying mathematics is very painful. When we talked about calculus, determinants, Taylor series, he immediately couldn’t smile. At that time, this kid also doub
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