#  Former JF John Urschel featured in Washington Post 

 





October 13, 2026

 

 

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Former Junior Fellow [John Urschel](https://math.mit.edu/~urschel/) (2022 - 23, 2024 - 25), currently an Assistant Professor of mathematics at MIT, was recently profiled by Miriam Waldvogel in *The Washington Post*. Urschel, who happens to be a former NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens, recently found that the Gaussian elimination algorithm, used to calculate shared solutions to a group of equations, specifically linear equations, is close to 100 percent reliable.

Read the full article [here](https://wapo.st/4ztmgGv).

Photo credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post



 

 

 



 

 

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