Mind and matter a life in math and football
"For John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child quickly evolved into mastery of the elegant systems and rules of mathematics. By the time he was thirteen, Urschel was auditing college-level calculus courses. But when he joined his high school football team, a new inter...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Puzzles
- The photograph
- Crashing calculus class
- Canisius
- Rocket science
- Recruitment
- Arriving at Penn State
- Pushing until failure
- Probability
- We are
- Q.E.D
- Who's Jerry Sandusky?
- Proof
- Sanctions
- Computers
- Who needs bowl games?
- Graph theory
- Senior season
- Spectral bisection
- Combine
- John Von Neumann
- Becoming a raven
- Challenging conventions
- Concussion
- Uncertainty
- MIT football
- Passing a test
- Moving on.
