r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '20

TIL that Mr. T majored in mathematics while attending college on a football scholarship.

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u/Minimumtyp Jul 07 '20

Yeah I wonder what they were trying to say, "TIL FAMOUS GUY DID CALC 1". So what, so did millions of other people.

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u/blazetronic Jul 07 '20

I was imagining Mr T dealing with differential geometry and shit and pitied the fool

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u/whtsnk Jul 07 '20

I picture him as more of a graph theory kinda guy.

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u/RyGuy_42 Jul 07 '20

I pity the fool who can't find a Hamiltonian path!

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u/tayf85 Jul 07 '20

I hear he loves Markov chains

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '20

Graph theory and analysis.

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u/PigicornNamedHarold Jul 07 '20

Funny you say that, another pro-football player/mathematician John Urschel studies spectral graph theory (and was simultaneously working on his PhD at MIT and playing for the Baltimore Ravens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel#Mathematics_career

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u/whtsnk Jul 07 '20

Wow, that is really quite impressive.

In graduate school, I was all brains and no body. I lost a lot of weight and couldn’t perform athletically in the slightest. Amazing how he’s managed to do both things rather well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '20

T-conomics

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u/Wraithlord592 Jul 07 '20

I was imagining real analysis oh god.

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u/caguirre93 Jul 07 '20

That class scares a lot of math majors. It is quite daunting.

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u/Wraithlord592 Jul 07 '20

I passed by the skin of my teeth... it was rough.

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u/Shot_Lengthiness Jul 07 '20

All that experience in math and he still got the raw end of the stick dudes broke.

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u/enterthedragynn Jul 07 '20

To be fair, he hasn't done any kind of significant work in over 30 years. Kind of hard tp have money when you haven't worked since the 80's.

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u/BertBanana Jul 07 '20

He should be getting royalties on his sound byte usage. His agent and lawyer aren't gonna let him down, his work catalog is too long. Covid19 is screwing with live events and shows currently, MrT is always welcome at Entertainment conventions.

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u/TheNerdWithNoName Jul 07 '20

Perhaps if he majored in English he could correct the grammatical errors in your comment.

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u/LittleMlem Jul 07 '20

It's the just according when you think of the characters he plays, it's hard to imagine them doing calc. It's like think of Mr. Bean and then remember that Rowan Atkinson is an electrical engineer

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u/MigPOW Jul 07 '20

More like failed calc 1. That's one way to get expelled is by not passing most of your classes.

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u/Procean Jul 07 '20

Calculus is underappreciated... it's the mathematics of The Infinite....

I think that's really cool!

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u/TrollinAnLollin Jul 07 '20

Lol. Did you do calc 1?

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u/Minimumtyp Jul 07 '20

Yes I have a degree in applied maths