Martin L. Newell Explained

Code:Football
Sport:Gaelic football
Martin Newell
Irish:Máirtín Ó Tnúthail
Birth Date:1939
Feet:5
Inches:11
Occupation:Lecturer
County:Galway
Province:Connacht
Club:Fr. Griffin's
Clyears:1950s-1960s
Counties:Galway
Icposition:Midfield
Icyears:1950s-1960s
Icprovince:5
Icallireland:3
Nfl:1
Allstars:2
Birth Place:Galway, Ireland

Martin Leonard Newell (born 1939 in Galway, Ireland) is a retired Irish mathematician and sportsman.

He earned his BSc and MSc in mathematical science at University College Galway before pursuing his PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt. He taught at Queen Mary College, in London, for three years, before returning to lecture at UCG (1969-2005).[1] He has co-edited two conference proceedings on group theory: Infinite Groups 1994 (Walter de Gruyter, 1994,) and Advances in Group Theory 2002 (Aracne, 2003,).

Martin L. Newell is the son of mathematician Martin J. Newell, and is in turn the father of mathematician John Newell.[2]

Football career

He played at left-half-back on the winning Galway teams in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals of 1964, 1965 and 1966.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://cardcolm.org/Atlas.html#NewellMartinL Atlas of Irish Mathematics & Mathematicians: Martin L. Newell
  2. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=147717 John Newell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Web site: Galway GAA profile. www.hoganstand.com. 2010-06-17. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100526185053/http://www.hoganstand.com/Galway/Profile.aspx. 2010-05-26.