article_snippet: But besides John Urschel endeavors on the field, John Urschel also keeps up another demanding pursuit that is rarely associated with the NFL players: mathematical research.
article_snippet: Not content with the respect of the locker room, John Urschel also seeks the esteem of top mathematicians around the globe.
article_snippet: I have a Bachelor's and Master's in mathematics, all with a 4.0, and numerous published papers in major mathematical journals,John Urschel wrote in a recent article for The Players' Tribune.
article_snippet: John Urschel latest contribution to the mathematical realm was a paper for the Journal of Computational Mathematics with the impressively esoteric title, "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians.
article_snippet: You are my goddamn hero (football fan and aspiring complex/functional analyst here)," tweeted Roy Cardenas, who describes himself as a math Ph.D. student.
article_snippet: But John Urschel acknowledges that John Urschel has faced questions from NFL officials, journalists, fans and fellow mathematicians about why John Urschel runs the risk of potential brain injury from playing football when John Urschel has "a bright career ahead of John Urschel in mathematics.
highlights_snippet: The NFL player has published numerous papers in major math journals .
  