32-year-old former American footballer John Urschel who juggled playing with studying becomes professor of Mathematics at US
A 32 year old former American football player by the name of John Urschel who combined playing with education has become a Professor of Mathematics at the Mass Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
John Urschel is a retired American professional football guard and center. He spent his whole career in the American National Football League with Baltimore Ravens and then retired at the age of 26.
John was a football star and managed to combine his studies with his profession. He graduated with his master and bachelors degrees in Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University, United States.
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He graduated the Pennsylvania State University and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue his doctorate degree in Mathematics.
ohn would play football in the day and study his PhD at night as reported by Afrotech. His colleagues at Baltimore Raven claimed that they were aware that he was pursuing a degree, but had no clue that he was spending his spare time to write six scholarly articles.
He claimed to have retired early in 2017 to get his interest in advanced theoretical mathematics in the head, and four years later earned his doctorate degree at MIT.
On the MIT site, he cites his bio, John stated that he is now a mathematician, working on matrix analysis and computations, with a particular interest in theoretical outcomes and provable guarantees to practical problems.
He also mentioned numerical linear algebra, spectral graph theory and subjects in theoretical machine learning as his research interests. According to John, there have been numerous occasions where he had to decide between his affection to math and the affection to the game.
Urschel, in a 2017 interview with Sports Illustrated, said that he felt guilty about it, in fact, kind of. I was even a bit ashamed of myself. I was playing math, but I always had a sense of doing what I wanted to do and never moving things, he added.