Erica Klarreich Explained

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.^[1]

Klarreich obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics under the guidance of Yair Nathan Minsky at Stony Brook University in 1997.^[2]

As a mathematician, Klarreich proved that the boundary of the curve complex is homeomorphic to the space of ending laminations.^[3]

As a popular science writer, Klarreich's work has appeared in publications such as Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, and Quanta Magazine.^[4] ^[5] She is one of the winners of the 2021 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award for her popular science writing.^[6]

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

"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.

Web site: Shecky . Riemann . Erica Klarreich... Journalist/Mathematician/Ray Smullyan Fan . April 12, 2015 . MathTango . blog .
Web site: Erica Klarreich. North Dakota State University. 4 December 2015. The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Book: Athanase Papadopoulos. Handbook of Teichmüller Theory. 2012. European Mathematical Society. 978-3-03719-103-3. 339.
Web site: Erica Klarreich. 4 December 2015.
Web site: Erica Klarreich. Quanta Magazine. 4 December 2015.
Web site: Stats + Stories and Erica Klarreich receive 2021 JPBM Communications Award. American Mathematical Society. October 15, 2020.