Certain mathematical subjects, such as statistics and linear algebra, are effective in the analysis of the behavior of markets. Economists, bankers and business consultants would all benefit from applying themselves to a detailed study of these concepts in a financial mathematics program.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.