| Mónica Clapp | |
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| Alma mater | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| Known for | Nonlinear partial differential equations |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Thesis | Dualität in der Kategorie der Spektren von Ex-Räumen (1979) |
| Doctoral advisors | Dieter Siegmund Puppe, Albrecht Dold |
Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora is a mathematician at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) known for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations 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
- ^ "Mónica Clapp (Investigadora)". Instituto de Matemáticas. Retrieved Feb 2, 2015.
- Mónica Clapp at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- "Mathematics section members" (PDF). Mexican Academy of Sciences. 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- 20th-century Mexican mathematicians
- 21st-century Mexican mathematicians
- Mexican women mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Living people
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 20th-century women mathematicians
- 21st-century women mathematicians
- Mexican expatriates in Germany
- Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences