There was an interesting article that looked at what the USA Mathematical olympiad trainee candidates in 1980 were doing now (This batch included the famous Noa

There was an interesting article that looked at what the USA Mathematical olympiad trainee candidates in 1980 were doing now (This batch included the famous Noam Elkies) - http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/ http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-progra... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225683 A bunch of them went into academia, though not necessarily pure math. Some became engineers and only one ended up in finance.