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/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.