What Type of Math is Used by Wall St. Financial Wizards?

[bballwaterboy]

What type of math is used by those who work on Wall St. and make the so-called "big bucks?"

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's an article about how to become a quant

http://www.quantstart.com/articles/Self-Study-Plan-for-Becoming-a-Quantitative-Developer

 

[bballwaterboy]

Cool. Thanks.

 

[Doug Huffman]

Retired quant Nassim Nicholas Taleb has his professional papers on-line, some here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=475810 at Social Science Research Network. Many more are linked from his current professional homepage http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ and in his various popularized writings.

His background is very different from the stereotypical quant from high energy physics.