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John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician

The Joy of x

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Mathematical Problems in High School

"I think it's like hieroglyphs, absolutely love of cultures of esing abouts to a and this is what people we're using numbers for," he says. "To think that people came up with these things so long ago so that they could solve ... problems where they have 11 loaves of bread." He adds: "Not a single thing in mathematics isn't born out of a very practical use"

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