SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Name: Professor Des MacHale
Office: WGB 142
T: 353 (0)21 420 5830
E: d.machale@ucc.ie

Research Interests:

My research interests are:

  • Theory of finite groups, especially commutativity, conjugacy classes, and automorphisms
  • Theory of rings especially commutativity
  • Plane Euclidean geometry
  • Recreational mathematics, problem solving and Lateral thinking
  • Superbrain and Intervarsity mathematical competitions
  • Mathematical teasers and their creation
  • Humour of mathematics (Mathematical gazette Humour Column)
  • History of mathematics,especially George Boole
  • Communication of mathematics, lecturing, radio and television
  • Mathematical theory of humour