Fall 2006 Exhibit: Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?
See reports on the AMS game Who Wants to Be a Mathematician for a look at future mathematicians having fun.
Information on careers in mathematics and statistics
- Careers in Statistics
- Going Somewhere? Careers in Applied Mathematics
- Be an Actuary: A Career without Boundaries
- Careers that Count: Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences
- Great Jobs for a Math Majors, by Stephen E. Lambert and Ruth J. DeCotis. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .L36 2006 Link to MNCAT record
- 101 Careers in Mathematics, edited by Andrew Sterrett. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2002. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .A15x 2002 Link to MNCAT record
- Starting Our Careers: A Collection of Essays and Advice on Professional Development from the Young Mathematicians’ Network, edited by Curtis D. Bennett and Annalisa Crannell. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1999. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .S7 1999 Link to MNCAT record
- She Does Math! : Real-Life Problems from Women on the Job, edited by Marla Parker. [Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, 1995. Mathematics Library QA27.5 .S53 1995 Link to MNCAT record
- Careers for Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types, Rebecca Burnett Lincolnwood, Ill., USA : VGM Career Horizons, 1993. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .B87 1993 Link to MNCAT record
- Mathematical Scientists at Work. Washington D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 1991. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .M42x 1999 Link to MNCAT record
- Careers for Number Lovers, interviews by Andrew Kaplan; photographs by Eddie Keating and Carrie Boretz. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1991. Mathematics Library QA10.5 .K36 1991 Link to MNCAT record
Perspective from established mathematicians
- A Mathematician’s Apology, by GH. Hardy; with a foreward by CP Snow. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Mathematics Library QA7. H3 1992 Link to MNCAT record
- Letters to a Young Mathematician, by Ian Stewart. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Mathematics Library QA99 .S84 2006 Link to MNCAT record
- I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography, by Paul R. Halmos. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985. Mathematics Library QA29.H19 A35 1985 Link to MNCAT record
- I Am a Mathematician, The Later Life of a Prodigy; An Autobiographical Account of the Mature Years and Career of Nobert Weiner, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1956. Mathematics Library QA29.W497 A35 Link to MNCAT record