[math-fun] Nominee was rescued from a math major

I'm probably reading this wrong, but this is from a profile of the new Supreme court nominee, in today's New York Times: * * * She majored in math at Southern Methodist, but instead chose to go to law school, she has said, after a lawyer stepped in and organized her family's financial situation when her father was disabled by a stroke. "There's no question that the family owes a tremendous debt to that lawyer," [her sister-in-law] told the Dallas newspaper... -- Thane Plambeck http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm