As an offensive guard for the Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel already has a lot on his plate.
He regularly goes head to head with the top defensive players in the NFL and does his best to keep quarterback Joe Flacco out of harm's way.
But besides his endeavors on the field, Urschel also keeps up another demanding pursuit that is rarely associated with NFL players: mathematical research.
Not content with the respect of the locker room, he also seeks the esteem of top mathematicians around the globe.
"I have a Bachelor's and Master's in mathematics, all with a 4.0, and numerous published papers in major mathematical journals," Urschel wrote in a recent article for The Players' Tribune.
'A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm'
His latest contribution to the mathematical realm was a paper for the Journal of Computational Mathematics with the impressively esoteric title, "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians."
Urschel, 23, makes no effort to hide his unusual combination of talents: his official Twitter handle is @MathMeetsFball.
As an offensive guard for the Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel already has a lot on his plate.
He regularly goes head to head with the top defensive players in the NFL and does his best to keep quarterback Joe Flacco out of harm's way.
But besides his endeavors on the field, Urschel also keeps up another demanding pursuit that is rarely associated with NFL players: mathematical research.
Not content with the respect of the locker room, he also seeks the esteem of top mathematicians around the globe.
"I have a Bachelor's and Master's in mathematics, all with a 4.0, and numerous published papers in major mathematical journals," Urschel wrote in a recent article for The Players' Tribune.
'A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm'
His latest contribution to the mathematical realm was a paper for the Journal of Computational Mathematics with the impressively esoteric title, "A Cascadic...