
Leila Schneps
Leila Schneps is an American mathematician and fiction writer at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique working in number theory. Schneps has written general audience math books and, under the pen name Catherine Shaw, has written mathematically themed murder mysteries.
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Books

The inverse Galois problem, moduli spaces and mapping class groups
1997
ISBN 9780521596411
Galois groups and fundamental groups
2010
ISBN 9780521174572