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I don't think Analysis (I think you mean Real Analysis) has much to do with CS (from the industry perspective), I don't know about research. Some classes which can be useful are - Discrete Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Automata Theory, Data Mining, Signal Processing, Image Processing...

I second wukunlin's advice here. However, if you try for the moon, you will at least end up getting a star, so do try. I would suggest you to look at INMO (Indian National Math Olympiad) and eventually learn about Physics Olympiad, if you can make it there, then you will be in a really good...

I came across this article today and thought you guys would be interested. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576588422968704078.html?mod=WSJ_World_LEFTSecondNews

A little advanced topics, pardon me if I am re-posting the same titles as above. Algebra Basic Algebra I & II, Nathan Jacobson Introduction to Non-Commutative Rings, Lam Further Algebra, Cohn Introduction to Commutative Algebra, Atiyah & MacDonald Analysis Real Analysis - Modern Techniques &...

Concrete Mathematics is an excellent book written by the same professor who wrote The Art of Computer Programming - an algorithm bible. Nevertheless, I wouldn't suggest you Concrete Mathematics at this point of time, on the other hand, I would recommend you to take a look at this one - Discrete...

I go to my country house and spend time there, beautiful grounds, it gives me peace of mind. If I feel my mind is back to normality, then I buy the texts used for the next semester courses. An interesting thing to do will be to read "practical things" about the courses that you have planned to...

Thanks physiker, any other comments are welcome.

I meant to ask what is your problem-solving skill level, not which year of college you are in. As I said, the list is quite huge and it won't help you even decide which book to start from. Assuming you have decent problem solving skills and you can ace a random problem from some regional math...

Sorry, forgot to mention, my Physics background is Classical Mechanics I at the level of Mechanics: Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 1, by C. Kittel, et al, Newtonian Mechanics: MIT Introductory Physics Series, by A. P. French.

Hi, I searched the forum but couldn't come up with any answers, so here goes my question: What are the topics/ courses that are used in Financial Engineering? I have the chance to take up to 4 courses (usual UG Physics courses) and my pick was Mathematical Physics & Statistical Mechanics, but...

This pretty much depends on where you want to start from. I have a huge list (collected from MIT website and from other sources) of books, but it is very hard and misleading to suggest anything before knowing what your background is.

NO! Those questions are problem-solving based (mostly taken by regional mathematical olympiad contestants). To answer your question, I have heard many many mathematicians say that having the "problem-solving" mindset and skill will help you become a mathematics researcher but it is...

While I agree to most of what micromass said, I don't agree to this: but most of the time these mathematical competitions have nothing to do with research. Being good in a mathematical competition means that you know a lot of theory. This can be true, but not always. You can be a good...

Academically, attending internships related to Finance will do a great deal of help with admissions. If you are aiming for PhD in Quantitative Finance/ Financial Engineering, then engage yourself in knowing about topics related to ODE/PDE/Probability/Stochastic Process/Analysis. See if you can...

Google it! I googled this: research topics in mathematical physics and found this link http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/maths/Research/resdet.html there are tonnes of other stuff, just google it.