What coursework is appropriate to be accepted to a mathematical finance program?
Standards vary from program to program. However, there seems to be a broad consensus that without course work in calculus, advanced calculus (including Taylor series), linear algebra and probability theory a student will find most financial mathematics programs difficult. Similarly, students with no experience programming computers in languages like C, C++, PERL or Java will also find such programs difficult. We do encourage students to take this as a general guideline and to contact specific programs for more details.
