No Money In Maths

Lehrer, when asked of the future, says: "I find the career of performing in public rather interesting—not so much in terms of audience response, since I don't get any particular pleasure out of singing the same idiotic songs night after night, but rather as regards the people I get to meet and the places I get to see (all expenses paid). Nevertheless I have no intention of continuing it indefinitely, but hope to go back to something a little more respectable (e.g., teaching mathematics) before long, with perhaps a little song-writing and recording on the side. The disheartening fact is that I can make so much more money with no intel-

lectual effort by performing than I could ever hope to make as a mathematician, despite recent increased national interest in mathematics, is what has kept me as an entertainer heretofore and is what will probably keep me at it for a while yet."

—P.F.