14 Facts About Colm Mulcahy

Colm Mulcahy was born on September 1958 and is an Irish mathematician, academic, columnist, book author, public outreach speaker, amateur magician and Professor Emeritus at Spelman College.

Colm Mulcahy served as chair of the department there from 2003 to 2006 and recently created the Archive of Spelman Mathematicians.

Colm Mulcahy has blogged for the Mathematical Association of America, The Huffington Post, Scientific American, and for The Aperiodical.

Colm Mulcahy's puzzles have been featured in The New York Times and The Guardian.

Colm Mulcahy is recognised as an authority on the mathematical principles and effects underlying cards tricks.

Colm Mulcahy has an Erdos number of 2, as a result of a collaboration with Neil Calkin.

Colm Mulcahy was a friend of longtime Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner during the last decade of Gardner's life.

Colm Mulcahy is a mainstay of Gathering 4 Gardner, an organisation formed to honour the wide-ranging contributions made by the celebrated mathematician, skeptic, magician, philosopher, and writer.

Colm Mulcahy has been particularly active in promoting an associated series of meetings known as Celebration of Mind, inspired by the works of Gardner.

Colm Mulcahy frequently writes about the culture and history of mathematics in Ireland.

Colm Mulcahy is active in both Maths Week Ireland, the world's largest mathematics outreach program, and the Irish Mathematical Society.

Colm Mulcahy is the creator and curator of the Annals of Irish Mathematics and Mathematicians, which chronicles four centuries of mathematical activity in Ireland, and has hosted monthly blogs since September 2016.

In 1997 Colm Mulcahy received the MAA's Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing for a paper on the basics of wavelet image compression.

Colm Mulcahy was married to Vicki Powers, an algebraic geometer and election theorist.