Card Colm in Ireland, March 2014
Colm Mulcahy
is Professor of Mathematics at
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA,
where he has taught since 1988, serving as chair of the
department 2003-06.
He is on leave for the academic year 2013-14, visiting The American University, but
is always reachable on email.
Click for Guardian piece.
He hopes you are half as excited about
Mathematics Awareness Month as he is, as
then he'll be twice as excited
as you are!
Appearances
Thanks to alll who came out for these events:
St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, D205, noon, Wed, 12 Mar
("Probabilistic Magic with Cards")
DCU Maths Club, X131, 2:00pm, Wed, 12 Mar
("Celebrating Mathematics, Magic & Mystery in 2014--the Legacy
of Martin Gardner")
St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, D211, 6:00pm, Wed, 12 Mar
("Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards" talk/demo, and book launch with signing)
WIT, Waterford, 4:15pm, Thu, 13 Mar
("Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards" talk/demo, and book launch with signing)
Stag's Head, Dublin Skeptics in the Pub, 8:30pm, Thu, 13 Mar
("Martin Gardner—Skeptic Supreme")
Book
(AK Peters/CRC Press, 380 pages, 128 illustrations, Aug 2013)
"Filled with many original ideas that will keep
mathematicians and magicians busy for a very long time"
— Arthur Benjamin
"A stimulating collection of novel card magic tricks that .... form
a wonderful introduction to important ideas in combinatorics"
— Ronald Graham
"A must for your magic library"
— Lennart Green
With the late Martin Gardner, in Oklahoma, Mar 2007. The famed writer was a sweet, unassuming and generous man. He played a significant role in enriching the intellectual climate of a nation during the space race era, turning tens of thousands of people on to the joys of creative thinking. In a sense, he did for mathematics what Julia Child did for French cooking. His legacy is celebrated every Oct with Celebration of Mind parties worldwide.
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