But that's you, not him! You can furnish relevant factual data and let him evaluate and decide.

You can provide your personal opinion. And you should also give relevant or supporting reasons that strengthen your opinion.

Merely stating your stand without supporting reasons is an uninformed opinion.

Furthermore, TS asked for opinions about taking Financial Mathematics course. Telling TS to go for engineering at UTHM is irrelevant to the issue under consideration. Don't you think so?

Financial mathematics is a field of applied mathematics that synthesizes a highly technical and abstract branch of maths, measure-theoretic probability theory, with practical applications that concerned with financial markets and derivatives pricing.

Banks need high-level financial maths skills because that is how the bank makes money!

Not exactly difficult or tough. However, like feynman's advice, you need to be “very comfortable” with the mathematical tools and derivatives pricing models.

Maple Finance Package and MATLAB Financial Toolbox are commercially available. These financial math tools enable you to estimate risk, analyze interest rate levels, price equity and interest rate derivatives, and measure investment performance. If you have MS Excel on your computer, you can use some built-in formulas, and functions to build a good financial model.

Make sure you master every subject in FM Elective Group I.

(1) Real Analysis
(2) Calculus III — Multivariable Calculus
(3) Operations Research — related to Decision Science & Optimization
(4) Applied Statistical Modeling
(5) Data Analysis
(6) Statistical Simulation for Insurance & Finance
(7) Stochastic Process

I know, but it doesn't matter, because I'm telling you to learn on your own. Learning alone is your opportunity to search for and choose your own learning material. Students in traditional classrooms usually don’t get to decide how they are going to master course content, because the lecturers decide for them in the form of textbook selection, quizzes, tests, group assignments, etc. As an independent learner, you can make your study time more effective by using only the learning methods that work for you.

The Brownian motion that you learned in Form 1 Science is an example of stochastic process.

The maths related to the Brownian motion can be modeled using Fick's 2nd Law of Diffusion. You will learn more about transport phenomena in Chemical Engineering.