Graciela Salicrup

The main hall of the UNAM Institute of Mathematics is named after her. Her research in categorical topology was published in 1986 by Horst Herrlich.

Shortly before her death, Graciela fell out with her mentor Roberto Vázquez and they stopped collaborating. In the summer of 1982, she was visited by Lamar Bentley and Horst Herrlich, with whom she planned to collaborate. Soon after this Graciela suffered a fall that hurt her badly. She did not recover and died on July 29, 1982.

She was elected to the Sociedad Matematica Mexicana with reciprocity to the American Mathematical Society in 1973.

After graduating in 1969 Graciela began teaching in the UNAM Faculty of Sciences. In 1970 she was given a position as a researcher in the UNAM Mathematics Institute, where she worked with Dr. Roberto Vázquez, her mentor. That same year she published her first work along with her mentor.

Salicrup Lopez still wanted to become a mathematician, and finally enrolled in the Faculty of Sciences in 1964 to study mathematics. Between 1966 and 1968 she taught mathematics at the UNAM Faculty of Architecture. Her thesis, accepted in 1969, was on the Jiang Boju subgroup.

Salicrup López attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to study architecture and the German language. In 1959, Salicrup López graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a degree in architecture.

After graduating from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1959, Salicrup Lopez worked with the anthropologist Laurette Séjourné on the restoration of Teotihuacan. She worked in the archaeological zone doing surveys and plans as well as directing excavations in important parts of this zone.

Graciela Beatriz Salicrup López (México City, México, April 7, 1935 – July 29, 1982) was a Mexican architect, archaeologist, and mathematician. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was a pioneer in the field of categorical topology. Most of her work was published in Spanish, and her original contributions were not widely recognized until after her premature death.

Graciela Beatriz Salicrup López was born in Mexico City on April 7, 1935. As a child, she attended Colegio Alemán, a German language primary school in Mexico City, followed by a religious secondary school for girls. A professor at Colegio Alemán originally encouraged her, inciting an interest in mathematics that her family did not understand or support, even sending her to see a psychiatrist for "extravagance, disorientation, and a bit of madness," according to her friend Claudia Gomez Wulschner.