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MATH 174EMathematics of Finance for Mathematics/Economics Students

Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Not open for credit to students with credit for course 174A, Economics 141, or Statistics C183/C283. Mathematical modeling of financial securities in discrete and continuous time. Forwards, futures, hedging, swaps, uses and pricing (tree models and Black-Scholes) of European and American options, Greeks and numerical methods.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Enforced requisites: courses 33A, and 170A or 170E or Statistics 100A.

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all of
  • MATH 33A
  • one of
    • MATH 170A
    • MATH 170E
    • STATS 100A

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MATH 174E

  • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
    • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
      • MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  • MATH 170AProbability Theory I
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it
    • MATH 131AAnalysis
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
      • MATH 33BDifferential Equations
  • STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it
  • MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it

4 direct requisites. Showing 20 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MATH 174E

  • MATH 179Advanced Topic in Financial Mathematics

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.