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@esporteen: Finance requires minimal statistics so you will not be hindered very much if you choose not to take statistics as a second major. Most likely, your Finance Math program will have a few required statistic courses you have to take anyways.

[quote=Suzy]My University has a Pure Math major

OT: I'm taking math with financial analysis and risk management (so that I can make money off of math later). Make sure that if you do choose Pure Math, you enjoy research or teaching since there are very few careers available for pure mathies. Yeah, university is about doing what you love, but it's also about doing something that can get you a job so you don't waste your time and money in school.[/quote]

That's why I'm quite indecisive about doing Pure Maths. I don't really see any other job possibility of a Pure Maths Major other than being a Teacher or do research stuff. And I'm not really one of those really smart people who gets like 90+ marks every subject.

Do you also do Statistics for a Financial Maths Major? Cause I know subjects offered on Applied Maths contains Optimisation and Financial Stuff BUT the major offered in my university is "Financial Maths AND Statistics". As much as I like Financial Maths (done a bit of Optimisation already), will my effectiveness on Financial Maths be hindered if I choose not to do Statistics?

[quote=Obscene]No school that I've heard of offers a "pure math" major. I'm sure it probably exists somewhere, but it isn't offered at most schools because there isn't much of a point to it. No matter what major you choose, you'll be able to take math classes for enjoyment in college if you'd like.[/quote]

My University has a Pure Math major

OT: I'm taking math with financial analysis and risk management (so that I can make money off of math later). Make sure that if you do choose Pure Math, you enjoy research or teaching since there are very few careers available for pure mathies. Yeah, university is about doing what you love, but it's also about doing something that can get you a job so you don't waste your time and money in school.

No school that I've heard of offers a "pure math" major. I'm sure it probably exists somewhere, but it isn't offered at most schools because there isn't much of a point to it. No matter what major you choose, you'll be able to take math classes for enjoyment in college if you'd like.

I'm agreeing on @ulti25 with this one.

There's no exact "career" for math majors- you'll have to apply it one way or another Which is the reason why I didn't become a math major or minor since it's pretty useless on it's own. Saying that, applied mathematics would be your runner up.

There's a large difference between the type of math you see on this forum and the type of math a math major does.

Math major's work is mostly proof-based, whereas the majority of the math done in early courses such as calculus and early differential equations is more computational. I'm assuming you have exposure up to linear algebra, so you might have gotten a taste of the type of math a math major does, depending on the rigor and how proof-based the courses leading up to linear algebra and linear algebra itself were.

I'd probably say that the pure math option leans towards what a math major does, although it's misleading to think that the pure math fields don't have any application. Applied math makes me think of a more computational perspective and wouldn't seem much different than the type of courses an engineer would have to take, but I'm not familiar with the way your majors have been divided.

If you're comfortable with proofs, then you should just think of what you'd like to do in the future as a career and evaluate your options from that perspective.