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Some mathematicians enter entirely unrelated fields. Math majors have the highest average scores of students in any field on the LSAT and GMAT, the tests required for entrance into law school and business school <ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430654</ref>: the skills acquired in studying mathematics in invaluable in the logic section of the LSAT and for subsequent careers in law.
Some mathematicians enter entirely unrelated fields. Math majors have the highest average scores of students in any field on the LSAT and GMAT, the tests required for entrance into law school and business school <ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430654</ref>: the skills acquired in studying mathematics in invaluable in the logic section of the LSAT and for subsequent careers in law.
== Further Reading ==
Numerous expository books cover the topics mentioned on this page, along with many others, in a very accessible way. Below are a few recommended books whose content is comparable to that of this article.
# ''Mathematics: The New Golden Age'', by Keith Devlin. Accessible discussions of many important ideas.
# ''Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities'', by Ian Stewart. A similar book covering the exciting side of mathematics and requiring little background.
# ''Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'', by John Derbyshire. Focuses on the famous [[Riemann hypothesis]] and related material.
# ''Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games''. A collection of articles by one of mathematics' foremost expositors.