Ted Hurley

Ted Hurley (born Thaddeus C. Hurley on 22 September 1944) is an Irish mathematician and retired university professor specialising in algebra, specifically in group theory, group rings, cryptography, coding theory and computer algebra. In 1976, Hurley was a founding member of the Irish Mathematical Society, and he served as its inaugural secretary (1977-1979).

Career After positions at Imperial College London, the University of Sheffield and University College Dublin (UCD), in 1980 Hurley took up a senior position at University College Galway (later known as the National University of Ireland Galway, and now as University of Galway. He was Statutory (Senior) Lecturer in Mathematics at UCG from 1980 to 1988, Associate Professor from 1988 to 1996, and Professor of Mathematics from 1996 on. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics from 1996 to 2001 and Head of Discipline from 2001 to 2010 within the School of Mathematics.

He has also been a vocal public commentator on mathematics' education, including the importance of numeracy and mathematics to our lives, in the Irish print media