James Cullen (mathematician)

Father James Cullen, S.J. (19 April 1867 – 7 December 1933) was an Irish mathematician.

He was born at 89 West Street, Drogheda, County Louth, to Michael Cullen, a baker, and Catherine McDonough.[1] Initially, he was educated privately, then by the Christian Brothers.[2] He studied pure and applied mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Mungret College, Limerick, before deciding to become a Jesuit. He studied in England in Mansera House, and St. Mary's, and was ordained as a priest on 31 July 1901.[3]

In 1905, he taught mathematics at Mount St. Mary's College in Derbyshire and published his finding of what is now known as Cullen numbers in number theory.[4]

He ended up looking after accounts for the English province of the Jesuits, while contributing to mathematics journals.[3]

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References

  1. ^ "General Registrar's Office". IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  2. ^ Fr James Cullen SJ - Biography Fermat Search.
  3. ^ a b "The Rev., J. Cullen, S.J." Obituaries. The Tablet. 16 December 1933. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016.
  4. ^ Keller, Wilfrid (1995). "New Cullen primes". Mathematics of Computation. 64 (212): 1733–1741, S39–S46. doi:10.2307/2153382. MR 1308456. With a biographical sketch of James Cullen by T. G. Holt and a supplement by Keller and Wolfgang Niebuhr.


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