Now, I’m no MIT math major. But I’m bright enough to know I was staring straight at a baseball diamond. Such a slip would ...

Less than 48 hours after receiving the biggest honor of his life, one of the most remarkable trophies given out during this week of the Heisman and Outland and Walter Camp awards ceremonies, Penn ...

Pro football player and MIT doctoral student John Urschel may represent an unusual combination of abilities and interests, but he told an audience of math students and faculty at the University of ...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Urschel doesn’t want to be unique. Urschel, the 25-year-old Baltimore Ravens guard, is unquestionably different from your average offensive lineman, or more broadly, NFL ...

Walter Isaacson sits down with John Urschel, a rising star who walked away from a lucrative football career in the NFL to pursue a doctorate in mathematics at MIT. Read Transcript EXPAND WALTER ...

“Every kid has a little bit of a mathematician in them,” says John Urschel in his book Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football. “All kids know the concept of more…. They can see that some things ...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Urschel doesn’t want to be unique. Urschel, the 25-year-old Baltimore Ravens guard, is unquestionably different from your average offensive lineman, NFL player, or even ...