Spelman College : Department of Mathematics : Mathematics Faculty

Colm Mulcahy has been in the Department of Mathematics at Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, since 1988. He served as the chair 2003-06. (The chair is currently Jeff Ehme.) Follow @cardcolm Nice podcast of highlights of first week of The Aperiodical with mention of New Blog at Maths Colm. Gathering 4 Gardner 10 and Celebration of Mind What Spelman math grads are doing (MAA Horizons Alumnae Profile, April 2004)

Vita	Background	Wavelets
Colm's Cards	Card Colms	Memberships

Banquet Talk, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Michigan MAA and MichMATYC, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, Michigan, May 4, 2012

14th Annual George Kitchen Memorial Lecture, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3 May 2012.

13 Apr 2012 interview on The Math Factor (15 minute podcast). In the first 5 minutes the hosts discuss a fun problem posed earlier, on 16 Mar 2012, which we recommend solving before tuning in. The last 10 minutes sees Colm discuss Gathering 4 Gardner 10 and a card effect.

7 Oct 2010 talk on Mathemagic with Cards at Clayton State University (50 minute video).

Click here for 90 second clip of Card Colm in action in June 2010 (released September).

Card Colm -- Celebration of Mind.

AJC guest Colm on The best friend mathematics ever had (21 Oct 2010).

Click on Martin Gardner for information and reminiscences of the man being honoured.

Colm was quoted in the WSJ on Wolfram Alpha. See: here and there (16 & 17 Jun 2009).

Card Colm puzzle in the NYT (it's the second puzzle there). The solution is here (Dec 2009).

Another Card Colm puzzle in the NYT (10 May 2010). The solution is here (7 June 2010).

Colm got Wired back in the 1990s.

Address (some proper subset of):

Department of Mathematics,
322 Albro-Falconer-Manley Center,
Spelman College, PO Box 953,
350 Spelman Lane SW,
Atlanta, GA 30314, USA

email: colm@spelman.edu
(always the quickest way to reach me!)
url: http://www.spelman.edu/~colm
phone: (404) 270-5837
fax: (404) 270-5836


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