After the publication of 108 career profiles in the first edition of 101 Careers in Mathematics, 31 additional profiles were obtained and are included in this edition. The new profiles also represent a wide variety of academic backgrounds and jobs and, in order that one might better see what advanced degrees (if any) undergraduate mathematics majors go on to earn, an appendix, Degrees Earned by Mathematics Majors, is included in this edition. Perhaps the most surprising observation to be made from this listing is found in the large number of mathematics majors who have advanced degrees in other disciplines. Mathematics majors are seen to go on to use their backgrounds in mathematics in conjunction with almost every other discipline, telecommunications, ecology, law, and economics to name a few.

Of course many individuals with a mathematics major or a keen interest in mathematics stray quite far from mathematics. It should not be surprising that an agile, seven-foot tall math major and basketball player would ind his way to a professional basketball team. A 1993 list of famous nonmathematicians, compiled by Steven G. Buyske, is found in an appendix to this volume.

In addition to new profiles, this edition contains “updates” (indicated by an * in the Table of Contents) written by some of the original authors. These updates illustrate that one's first job is not always the last one and that major changes in one's career path sometimes occur.