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23rd Mar 2015

The maths equations this NFL star is tackling will blow your tiny mind

John Urschel could school Carol Vorderman in maths...

Ben Kenyon

This guy is an actual genius.

American Football is known for its meatheads – but John Urschel is a secret egghead.

The Baltimore Ravens’ offensive lineman could be the closest thing to Einstein in cleats and a helmet the NFL has ever seen.

He has just published a ludicrously complex study in a The Journal of Computational Mathematics.

Not bad for a guy that probably takes more hits to the head than a crash test dummy.
You might want to sit down for this, but here’s the title of his study: “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians.”

Nope. Us neither.

JOE took one look at the equations this guy was serving up and our minds were totally blown.

If anyone can work this stuff out, please, answers on a postcard.

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