Erica Klarreich, Mathematics and Science Writer

Erica Klarreich

Mathematics and Science Writer

Erica Klarreich

Mathematics and Science Writer

About Me

I am a mathematics and science journalist based in Berkeley, California.

My work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, American Scientist, and Science News, and has been reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 and The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011.

Recent articles

Network Solutions

A new breed of ultrafast computer algorithms offers computer scientists a novel tool to probe the structure of large networks. Read more

Simons Foundation web site, April 24, 2012

Approximately Hard: The Unique Games Conjecture

The famous P versus NP conjecture, still unsolved after 40 years, has done more than perhaps any other single mathematical assertion in modern times to set the ground rules and the very language of its field. Now, this field has been electrified by a new conjecture, which, while not as monumental as the P versus NP conjecture, in some sense picks up where that conjecture leaves off. Read more

Simons Foundation web site, October 6, 2011

Playing with Matches

Mathematics is helping medical students and hospitals solve the two-body problem. Read more

Simons Foundation web site, September 24, 2010

Reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

Mathematicians solve 45-year-old Kervaire Invariant Puzzle

A trio of mathematicians has solved a 45-year-old mystery about the shape of high-dimensional spaces by showing that all "framed" shapes of dimension higher than 126 — shapes that are impossible to visualize, but that can be described by equations — are related in a certain fundamental way to spheres. Read more

Simons Foundation web site, July 20, 2009

Reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

Last updated August 10, 2011