Clara Grima

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Clara Grima in May 2013

Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz (born 1971) is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Seville, specializing in computational geometry. She is known for her research on scutoids (polyhedron-like shapes that can pack the space between pairs of curved surfaces)[1] and for her popularization of mathematics.

Education and career[edit]

Grima was born in 1971 in Coria del Río. She completed her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Seville in 1998, and is a professor of applied mathematics at the same university.[2][3]

Grima also serves as president for the committee on popularization of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.[4]

Books[edit]

Grima's books include:

  • Computational Geometry on Surfaces: Performing Computational Geometry on the Cylinder, the Sphere, the Torus, and the Cone (with Alberto Márquez, Kluwer, 2001)[5]
  • Mati y sus mateaventuras: Hasta el infinito y más allá (with Raquel Gu [es], Espasa, 2013)[6]
  • Las matemáticas vigilan tu salud: Modelos sobre epidemias y vacunas (Mathematics watches your health, with Enrique F. Borja, Next Door Publishers, 2017), on the applications of mathematics in epidemiology and personal health[7]
  • ¡Que las matemáticas te acompañen! (May mathematics be with you, Ariel, 2018) on the importance of mathematics in understanding the world[6][8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gómez-Gálvez, Pedro; Vicente-Munuera, Pablo; Tagua, Antonio; Forja, Cristina; Castro, Ana M.; Letrán, Marta; Valencia-Expósito, Andrea; Grima, Clara; Bermúdez-Gallardo, Marina (2018-07-27), "Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia", Nature Communications, 9 (1): 2960, Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.2960G, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05376-1, PMC 6063940, PMID 30054479; Burdick, Alan (30 July 2018), "We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained", The New Yorker
  2. ^ "Clara Grima (biography)", Personal pages of Clara Grima, retrieved 2019-07-31
  3. ^ Trujillo García, Fausto Andrés, "Clara Grima", Primer Encuentro de Mujeres Matemáticas, Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, pp. 10–11
  4. ^ Diez López, Nerea (7 December 2018), Clara Grima en Talent Woman, Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
  5. ^ Reviews of Computational Geometry on Surfaces:
  6. ^ a b García Aller, Marta (20 January 2019), "Clara Grima, la matemática que enseña a dominar el mundo", El Independiente (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Lucio, Cristina G. (9 December 2017), "Las matemáticas te salvan la vida" [Mathematics saves your life], El Mundo
  8. ^ Grima, Clara (20 June 2018), "Que las matemáticas te acompañen", El País (in Spanish)

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