Erica Gail Klarreich is an American mathematician, journalist and science popularizer.

Early life and education

Klarreich's father was a professor of mathematics, and her mother was a mathematics teacher. Klarreich obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics under the guidance of Yair Nathan Minsky at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

in 1997.

Mathematics

As a mathematician, Klarreich proved that the boundary of the

curve complex In mathematics, the curve complex is a simplicial complex ''C''(''S'') associated to a finite-type surface ''S'', which encodes the combinatorics of simple closed curves on ''S''. The curve complex turned out to be a fundamental tool in the stu ...

homeomorphic In the mathematical field of topology, a homeomorphism, topological isomorphism, or bicontinuous function is a bijective and continuous function between topological spaces that has a continuous inverse function. Homeomorphisms are the isomorphi ...

to the space of ending

laminations Lamination is the technique/process of manufacturing a Raw material, material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength of materials, strength, stability, sound insulation, visual appearance, appearance, or ...

Popular science writing

As a popular science writer, Klarreich's work has appeared in publications such as '' Nature'', '' Scientific American'', '' New Scientist'', and ''

Quanta Magazine ''Quanta Magazine'' is an editorially independent online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science. ''Undark Magazine'' described ''Quanta Magazine'' as "highly regarded for ...

''. She is one of the winners of the 2021

Joint Policy Board for Mathematics The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) consists of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The Board has near ...

Communications Award for her popular science writing.

Selected publications

Mathematics

* "The boundary at infinity of the curve complex and the relative Teichmüller space" * "Semiconjugacies between Kleinian group actions on the Riemann sphere"

Popular science

*
Biologists join the dots
, '' Nature'', v. 413, n. 6855, pp. 450–452, 2001. *
Foams and honeycombs
, ''

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'', v. 88, n. 2, pp. 152–161, 2000. *
Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret?
, ''Nature'', v. 418, n. 6895, pp. 270–272, 2002. *
Huygens's clocks revisited
, ''American Scientist'', v. 90, pp. 322–323, 2002.

References

External links

Klarreich's personal page
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