[Asymmetryk]

if I may be so bold ( and presumptuous my suggestion is of any value) I wondered if your friend would like the risk and structured securities aspects of actuarial catastrophe risk markets. This pretty much has everything in it, from chaos theory to the statistics of the cadence of liabilities upon the different kinds of financial engineering structure that are used to distribute * the liability and fund the most difficult to reinsure policies in the capital markets.

edit : * and package, according to a tremendous variety of fiscal requirements and risk appetites. And naturally covering the most extreme conditions liability payments is historically a fascinating insight into how we developed our world across and binding together such tenuous links.

[asdfman123]

Actually he's super into stock options and all that stuff. I think he majored in finance. I was the one who convinced him to do programming (although he's heading towards data science I guess now).

Also we had a falling out since then, so shrugs.