Mind and Matter
A Life in Math and Football
A New York Times bestsellerJohn Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a life balanced between two passionsFor 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 accep…
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Weitere Autoren: Thomas, Louisa
- ISBN: 978-0-7352-2487-2
- EAN: 9780735224872
- Produktnummer: 28452253
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'841 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 CHART; 2 DIAGRAMS
Über den Autor
John Urschel is a former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens and a PhD candidate at MIT. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics from Penn State, and in 2013, he won the Sullivan Award, given to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States, and the Campbell Trophy, awarded to the country's top scholar-athlete in college football. Louisa Thomas is the author of Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams and Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family - A Test of Will and Faith in World War I. She is a contributor at the New Yorker and a former writer and editor for Grantland. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Vogue, and other places. John and Louisa live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their daughter.
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