Life and work
Clapp was born in Mexico City. She graduated from UNAM in 1974. Clapp then graduated with her Ph.D from Heidelberg University in 1979, and has been a faculty member at UNAM since that time. Clapp has been an editor of the journals Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana and Aportaciones Matemáticas.Awards and honors
In 2012, Clapp became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.Selected publications
* Clapp, Mónica; Puppe, Dieter Invariants of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann type and the topology of critical sets. '' Transactions of the American Mathematical Society'' 298 (1986), no. 2, 603–620. * Clapp, Mónica; Puppe, Dieter Critical point theory with symmetries. '' Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' 418 (1991), 1–29. * Bartsch, Thomas; Clapp, Mónica Critical point theory for indefinite functionals with symmetries. ''Journal of Functional Analysis'' 138 (1996), no. 1, 107–136. * Castro, Alfonso; Clapp, Mónica The effect of the domain topology on the number of minimal nodal solutions of an elliptic equation at critical growth in a symmetric domain. ''Nonlinearity'' 16 (2003), no. 2, 579–590.References
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