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Name
  
Erica Flapan


Role
  
Mathematician

Erica Flapan Erica Flapan Pomona College Math Dept

Education
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Books
  
When topology meets chemistry

Erica Flapan: "An Introduction to Spatial Graph Theory" at MAA MathFest 2017


Erica Flapan (born August 14, 1956) is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.

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Erica Flapan Erica Flapan Pomona College in Claremont California Pomona College

Flapan did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College (New York), graduating in 1977, and went on to graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of Daniel McMillan. After postdoctoral studies at Rice University and the University of California, Santa Barbara she joined the Pomona faculty in 1986. Flapan's research is in low-dimensional topology and knot theory.

In 2011, Flapan was one of three winners of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, from the Mathematical Association of America. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and in the same year as part of the bicentennial of Hamilton College was honored with a Hamilton Alumni Achievement Medal.

Books

She has published numerous papers, as well as worked on four books.

  • She is the author of the book When Topology Meets Chemistry: A Topological Look at Molecular Chirality (Cambridge University Press and Mathematical Association of America, 2000).
  • In 2009, Flapan edited the book Applications of Knot Theory along with Dorothy Buck.
  • With James Pommersheim and Tim Marks she also wrote the book Number Theory: A Lively Introduction with Proofs, Applications, and Stories (John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
  • In December 2015, she published a "fun" introductory topology textbook, Knots, Molecules, and the Universe: An Introduction to Topology.
  • Publications

  • Knots, Molecules, and the Universe: An Introduction to Topology, American Math Society, (2015)
  • References

    Erica Flapan Wikipedia