Martin L. Newell

Martin Leonard Newell, born in Galway in 1939, is an Irish retired mathematician and sportsman who combined a university career with Gaelic football for Galway. He studied mathematical science at University College Galway, took his doctorate at Goethe University Frankfurt, taught at Queen Mary College in London for three years and then lectured in Galway from 1969 until 2005. He has co-edited two conference proceedings on group theory. On the football field he played left-half-back for the Galway teams that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals of 1964, 1965 and 1966. He is the son of the mathematician Martin J. Newell and the father of the mathematician John Newell.