About the Author
Fernando Zalamea (Bogota, 1959) received his Ph. D. in Logic and Category Theory (University of Massachusetts, 1990) under Ernest Manes. Full Professor of the Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, he has been coordinating since 2007 the Colombian Center on Peircean Studies (acervopeirceano.org) and is the editor of Cuadernos de Sistematica Peirceana. Author of fifteen books (cultural essays, mathematical monographs, studies on Peirce and Lautman), his last output is Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics (Urbanomic / Sequence Press, 2012). Zalamea has obtained some of the main Essay Prizes in the Hispanic World – Jovellanos (Spain, 2004), Gil Albert (Spain, 2004), Kostakowsky (Mexico, 2001), Andres Bello (Colombia, 2001) – and pursues an active literary career. His current research develops around forms of creativity in higher mathematics, from Galois and Riemann, to Grothendieck and Gromov.