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Mind and Matter - A Life in Math and Football (Paperback)
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Mind and Matter - A Life in Math and Football (Paperback)
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A New York Times bestseller John Urschel, mathematician and former
offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a
life balanced between two passions For John Urschel, what began as
an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child developed into
mastery of the elegant systems and rules of mathematics. By the
time he was thirteen, Urschel was auditing a college-level calculus
course. But when he joined his high school football team, a new
interest began to eclipse the thrill he felt in the classroom.
Football challenged Urschel in an entirely different way, and he
became addicted to the physical contact of the sport. After he
accepted a scholarship to play at Penn State, his love of math was
rekindled. As a Nittany Lion, he refused to sacrifice one passion
for the other. Against the odds, Urschel found a way to manage his
double life as a scholar and an athlete. While he was an offensive
lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, he simultaneously pursued his PhD
in mathematics at MIT. Weaving together two separate narratives,
Urschel relives for us the most pivotal moments of his bifurcated
life. He explains why, after Penn State was sanctioned for the acts
of former coach Jerry Sandusky, he declined offers from prestigious
universities and refused to abandon his team. He describes his
parents' different influences and their profound effect on him, and
he opens up about the correlation between football and CTE and the
risks he took for the game he loves. Equally at home discussing
Georg Cantor's work on infinities and Bill Belichick's playbook,
Urschel reveals how each challenge-whether on the field or in the
classroom-has brought him closer to understanding the two different
halves of his own life, and how reason and emotion, the mind and
the body, are always working together. "So often, people want to
divide the world into two," he observes. "Matter and energy. Wave
and particle. Athlete and mathematician. Why can't something (or
someone) be both?"
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