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I'll be graduating in the fall with my b.s. in math and I'd like to continue on to graduate school. I would feel better about it though if I had a clue what particular area of mathematics I wanted to specialize in. So far, in my undergraduate career, I've gotten a good working overview of the fundamentals, but I've been exposed to very little motivation for 'what comes after' the basics.
I'd love to hear from someone who dealt with this issue himself/herself. Any book recommendations concerning the scope of some of these subfields might also be useful.
Also- I'm not aware of the usual sequence of events. Is it the case that most people know what their area of study will be before graduate school, or is it entirely possible to get a graduate degree just studying general mathematics as one does as an undergraduate, albeit at a higher level?
I'd love to hear from someone who dealt with this issue himself/herself. Any book recommendations concerning the scope of some of these subfields might also be useful.
Also- I'm not aware of the usual sequence of events. Is it the case that most people know what their area of study will be before graduate school, or is it entirely possible to get a graduate degree just studying general mathematics as one does as an undergraduate, albeit at a higher level?