Erica Klarreich

Erica Gail Klarreich (born 1972) is an American mathematician, journalist and science popularizer.

As a mathematician, Klarreich is known for her theorem in geometric topology that states that the boundary of the curve complex is homeomorphic to the space of ending laminations.^[1][2][3]

As a science writer, her work appears in publications such as Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, and Quanta Magazine.^[4][5]

Klarreich's father was a professor of mathematics, and her mother was a mathematics teacher.^[6]

Klarreich obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics under the guidance of Yair Nathan Minsky at Stony Brook University in 1997.^[7]

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", American Scientist, 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

1. Athanase Papadopoulos (2012). Handbook of Teichmüller Theory. European Mathematical Society. p. 339. ISBN 978-3-03719-103-3.
2. "The Boundary of the Arc Complex". GATSBY - Geometry and Topology Seminar at Brown and Yale. 31 October 2013.
3. Alexander Wickens, "A topological proof of Klarreich's theorem"
4. "Erica Klarreich". Retrieved 4 December 2015.
5. "Erica Klarreich". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
6. Riemann, Shecky (April 12, 2015). "Erica Klarreich... Journalist/Mathematician/Ray Smullyan Fan". MathTango (blog).
7. "Erica Klarreich". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

External links

• Klarreich's personal page