"I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography" -- http://www.amazon.com/Want-Mathematician-An-Automathography/dp/0387960783 http://www.amazon.com/Want-Mathe

"I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography" -- http://www.amazon.com/Want-Mathematician-An-Automathography/dp/0387960783 http://www.amazon.com/Want-Mathematician-An-Automathography/... This was a very influential book for me in just thinking about what it would be like to do math for a career. And I'm not a mathematician, so I think it worked. :-)