Singer Art Garfunkel holds an MA in mathematics from Columbia. He started on his PhD, but quit in order to pursue a career in music.

Petroleum engineers work in the technical profession that involves extracting oil in increasingly difficult situations as the world’s oil fields are found and depleted. Petroleum engineers search the world for reservoirs containing oil or natural gas. Once these resources are discovered, petroleum engineers work with geologists and other specialists…

Researchers Stuart Ritchie and Timothy Bates of the University of Edinburgh have linked childhood math and reading skills to social status in adulthood. Students with higher math and reading abilities at age seven were found to have better jobs, higher incomes, and better housing in adulthood than those with…