If you want to go deep on stochastic processes / probability theory - useful in finance - then you'll need it for sure. Otherwise probably not. Whether "needi

If you want to go deep on stochastic processes / probability theory - useful in finance - then you'll need it for sure. Otherwise probably not. Whether "needing" to know it is a good reason for not learning it is another question. If you're asking the question then you should probably just learn at least a little for general interest.