One recent afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing some of the ...

Former Baltimore Ravens player John Urschel continues to make power plays off the field several years after retiring from the NFL. Urschel was recently hired as a professor of mathematics at ...

A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has gone viral for awkwardly interrupting a math lecture to protest the so-called “ongoing genocide of Gaza.” The clip, viewed more than 18 ...

If you don’t think math is funny, Gioia De Cari might just be able to change your mind. De Cari will present her one-woman, 75-minute show “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through MIT’s Male Math Maze” ...

A set diagram depicts the places where different groups of objects overlap. Example: in the United States, there are about 1,700 professional football players, and thousands of people pursuing PhDs in ...

Urschel, a former guard for the Baltimore Ravens, shares his lifelong attempts to reconcile math and football in his captivating memoir. Urschel recalls his childhood attraction to puzzles; they gave ...

It’s been nearly two years since John Urschel retired from the NFL at age 26. The former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens is now a full-time graduate student at MIT who spends his days in ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

As former offensive lineman for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens and a current doctoral candidate in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Urschel has managed to find ...

At MIT, bright young engineers are still asked to tackle devilish math problems on their way to a degree. But officials at Boston Public Schools (BPS) are hoping they can turn their attention to the ...

When the New England Patriots beat the "Deflategate" charges with the help of MIT's John Leonard, the professor of mechanical engineering decided to turn his research findings into a lesson for high ...