Erica Flapan

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Erica Flapan is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.[1]

Flapan did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College (New York), graduating in 1977,[2][3] and went on to graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of Daniel McMillan.[4] After postdoctoral studies at Rice University and the University of California, Santa Barbara she joined the Pomona faculty in 1986.[2][3]

Flapan's research is in low-dimensional topology and knot theory. 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).[3] 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).[3]

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.[5][3] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society,[6] and in the same year as part of the bicentennial of Hamilton College was honored with a Hamilton Alumni Achievement Medal.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Faculty listing, Pomona Mathematics Dept., retrieved 2013-01-22.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2013-01-22.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Award citation, January 2011 Prizes and Awards, MAA, retrieved 2013-01-22.
  4. ↑ Erica Flapan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Halmo award recipients, MAA, retrieved 2013-01-22.
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-21.
  7. ↑ Hamilton Alumni Achievement Medals, Hamilton College, retrieved 2013-01-22.
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