{"id":592,"date":"2015-10-25T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/?p=592"},"modified":"2015-10-26T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:55:53","slug":"john-urschel-a-well-known-mathematician-you-might-not-have-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2015\/10\/25\/john-urschel-a-well-known-mathematician-you-might-not-have-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"John Urschel, a well-known mathematician you might not have heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/1017439\">John Urschel<\/a>\u00a0 just came across my desk. \u00a0Urschel\u00a0has three papers in MathSciNet. \u00a0The latest is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3326011\">A cascadic multigrid algorithm for computing the Fiedler vector of graph Laplacians<\/a>&#8221; in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journaldoc.html?cn=J_Comput_Math\"><em>Journal of Computational Mathematics<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Like many of the authors in the Mathematical Reviews database, Urschel is not an academic mathematician. \u00a0However, he does have a rather different sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/team\/roster\/John-Urschel\/69bcc60c-a54b-460f-aa91-afc2d0a2ecee\">day job<\/a> (well, sometimes he works <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/schedules\/2015\/MNF\">Monday nights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: My fellow AMS blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/author\/evel8yn\">Evelyn Lamb<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2015\/04\/07\/john-urschel-athletemathlete\">posted<\/a> about this story a few months ago.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper by\u00a0John Urschel\u00a0 just came across my desk. \u00a0Urschel\u00a0has three papers in MathSciNet. \u00a0The latest is &#8220;A cascadic multigrid algorithm for computing the Fiedler vector of graph Laplacians&#8221; in the\u00a0Journal of Computational Mathematics. \u00a0Like many of the authors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2015\/10\/25\/john-urschel-a-well-known-mathematician-you-might-not-have-heard-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2015\/10\/25\/john-urschel-a-well-known-mathematician-you-might-not-have-heard-of\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[27,25,26],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematicians","category-short-posts","tag-football-american","tag-john-urschel","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6C2KK-9y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}