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Hey roman,quantguild why is number of physics major in quantitative finance disproportionately larger than other major?
May 17, 2026 · 04:54 PM · 108 views · Commons
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@schizo · May 17, 2026 · 05:01 PM
You treat the market as a thermodynamic system (burn your firms cash).
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@quantguild · May 17, 2026 · 04:57 PM
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It has to do with applied maths, quant will draw from pretty much anywhere nowadays (I know plenty of biomedical engineering Ph.Ds at Citadel who don't know what Black-Scholes is...),

I don't know where you got that proportion from or where the survey is that Physics actually is proportionally the most of any major (maybe beyond anecdotes from Simons) but there are a lot of them in the field, any applied maths/stats are highly desirable
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@quantguild · May 17, 2026 · 04:57 PM
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Good question thanks for the post
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