Mónica Clapp
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Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora is a mathematician at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) known for her work in
nonlinear partial differential equation In mathematics and physics, a nonlinear partial differential equation is a partial differential equation with nonlinear system, nonlinear terms. They describe many different physical systems, ranging from gravitation to fluid dynamics, and have be ...
s and algebraic topology.


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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