He Left the NFL for Mathematics — and Just Made a Big Breakthrough
Urschel’s preprint says Gaussian elimination is nearly 100% reliable, resolving a question mathematicians have debated for about 30 years.
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Ex-NFL Player Just Solved 'Big Question' in Math
A guy who used to protect NFL quarterbacks is now involved with something else entirely: one of math's most basic tools. The Washington Post profiles John Urschel , a form Baltimore Ravens lineman who walked away from the football League in 2017 over concerns about brain injuries and is now a...
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Anchorage Daily NewsHe left the NFL for mathematics — and just made a big breakthrough
After retiring from the Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel said he looked forward to being known as "that mathematician who used to play football."
He gave up his NFL career for mathematics, and now, nearly a decade after retiring, former Baltimore Ravens player John Urschel has solved a nearly 30-year-old math problem. Now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Urschel has shown that a key method for computing can work under conditions that mathematicians had doubted for decades.
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