Mind and matter: a life in math and football
More Details
Contributors:
ISBN:
9780735224865
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
| Grouped Work ID | 9ba8aee2-ccf8-e960-da63-b53012ed33ab |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | mind and matter a life in math and football |
| Grouping Author | john urschel |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-04-25 05:08:43AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-07-14 05:13:49AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Thomas, Louisa
author
Urschel, John, 1991-
author2-role
Thomas, Louisa,author
author_display
Urschel, John
available_at_catalog
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community
collection_catalog
Biography
detailed_location_catalog
East Regional - Biography
Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography
Middlecreek Community - Biography
North Regional - Biography
Northeast Regional - Biography
Oberlin Regional - Biography
Remote Storage - Biography
Southeast Regional - Biography
Wake Forest Community - Biography
Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography
Middlecreek Community - Biography
North Regional - Biography
Northeast Regional - Biography
Oberlin Regional - Biography
Remote Storage - Biography
Southeast Regional - Biography
Wake Forest Community - Biography
display_description
"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 interest began to eclipse the thrill he once felt in the classroom. Football challenged Urschel in an entirely different way, and he became addicted to the physical contact of the sport. Accepting a scholarship to play football at Penn State, Urschel refused to sacrifice one passion for another, and simultaneously pursued his bachelor's and then master's degrees in mathematics. Against the odds, Urschel found a way to manage his double life as a scholar and an athlete, and so when he was drafted to the Baltimore Ravens, he enrolled in his PhD at MIT. Weaving together two separate yet bound narratives, Urschel relives for us the most pivotal moments of his bifurcated life. He explains why, after Penn State was sanctioned for the acts of former coach Jerry Sandusky, he turned his back on offers from Ivy League universities and refused to abandon his team, and contends with his mother's repeated request, at the end of every season, that he quit the sport and pursue a career in rocket science. Perhaps most personally, he opens up about the correlation between football and CTE, and the risks he took for the game he loves. Equally at home with both Bernard Riemann's notion of infinity and Bill Belichick's playbook, Urschel reveals how each challenge - whether on the field or in the classroom - has brought him closer to understanding the two different halves of his own life, and how reason and emotion, the mind and the body, are always working together"--
format_catalog
Book
format_category_catalog
Books
id
9ba8aee2-ccf8-e960-da63-b53012ed33ab
isbn
9780735224865
last_indexed
2025-07-14T09:13:49.289Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
local_callnumber_catalog
B URSCHEL
owning_library_catalog
Wake County Public Libraries
owning_location_catalog
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community
primary_isbn
9780735224865
publishDate
2019
publisher
Penguin Press
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Football players -- United States -- Biography
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
Urschel, John, -- 1991-
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
Urschel, John, -- 1991-
title_display
Mind and matter : a life in math and football
title_full
Mind and matter : a life in math and football / John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
title_short
Mind and matter
title_sub
a life in math and football
topic_facet
Football players
Mathematicians
Urschel, John
Mathematicians
Urschel, John
Solr Details Tables
item_details
| Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Location | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:736409 | 6988477 | Remote Storage - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988495 | Southeast Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | SER | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988478 | Wake Forest Community - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | WAK | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988458 | Northeast Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | NER | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988482 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988487 | Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | EVA | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988463 | Remote Storage - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988485 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988476 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR | |||||
| ils:736409 | 7170186 | Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | FUQ | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988471 | Remote Storage - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988466 | Middlecreek Community - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | MID | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988489 | North Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | NOR | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988462 | Remote Storage - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988481 | East Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | ERL | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988486 | Remote Storage - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | LAB | |||||
| ils:736409 | 6988483 | Oberlin Regional - Biography | B URSCHEL | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | OBR |
record_details
| Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:736409 | Book | Books | English | Penguin Press | 2019 | xi, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
scoping_details_catalog
| Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Is Home Pick Up Only | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Home Pick Up PTypes | Local Url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ils:736409 | 6988477 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988495 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988478 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988458 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988482 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988487 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988463 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988485 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988476 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 7170186 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988471 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988466 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988489 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988462 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988481 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988486 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false | ||||
| ils:736409 | 6988483 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | true | false |