Clara Grima facts for kids
Clara Isabel Grima Ruiz is a smart professor who teaches mathematics at the University of Seville in Spain. She was born in 1971. Clara Grima is an expert in a special area of math called computational geometry. This field uses computers to solve problems involving shapes and spaces. She is also famous for making mathematics fun and easy to understand for everyone.
Who is Clara Grima?
Clara Grima was born in a town called Coria del Río in 1971. She loved math so much that she studied it all the way through university. In 1998, she earned her highest degree in mathematics from the University of Seville. Now, she is a professor there, teaching students about applied mathematics. This is a type of math that helps solve real-world problems.
Making Math Fun
Besides teaching, Clara Grima has an important job helping people learn to love math. She is the president of a special group within the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. This group works to share how exciting and useful mathematics can be. She helps show that math isn't just numbers and formulas, but a way to understand the world around us.
Clara Grima's Books
Clara Grima has written several books, often to help explain math in a simple way. Here are some of her books:
- Computational Geometry on Surfaces: Performing Computational Geometry on the Cylinder, the Sphere, the Torus, and the Cone (written with Alberto Márquez in 2001). This book is about how computers can work with shapes on different surfaces like cylinders or spheres.
- Mati y sus mateaventuras: Hasta el infinito y más allá (written with Raquel Garcia i Ulldemolins in 2013). This book is a fun adventure that helps kids explore math.
- Las matemáticas vigilan tu salud: Modelos sobre epidemias y vacunas (Mathematics watches your health, written with Enrique F. Borja in 2017). This book explains how math can be used to understand how diseases spread and how vaccines help keep us healthy.
- ¡Que las matemáticas te acompañen! (May mathematics be with you, 2018). This book talks about why math is so important for understanding everything in our world.
See also
In Spanish: Clara Grima para niños
