Hernando Burgos-Soto
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Hernando Burgos-Soto | |
|---|---|
| Born | Colombia |
| Alma mater | National University of Colombia, University of Toronto |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | George Brown College |
| Doctoral advisor | Dror Bar-Natan |
Hernando Burgos Soto is a Canadian (Colombian born) writer and mathematician, professor of mathematics at George Brown College.[1] He is the author of several math papers in which he introduced some mathematics concepts and extended to tangles some celebrated results of knot theory about the Khovanov homology and the Jones polynomial.[2][3] During his career as a mathematician, his interests have included Mathematical Statistics, Knot Theory, Algebraic Topology and more recently Mathematical Finance. He is comfortable writing in English and Spanish. When writing in Spanish, he works in the area of prose fiction writing short stories. Some of his short stories were published at the website Cuentos y Cuentos.[4]
Professor Burgos Soto holds a BSc.Ed in mathematics at the University of Atlántico and a MSc in Mathematics from the University of Valle. He earned a PhD in mathematics from National University of Colombia in 2009, and completed his dissertation at University of Toronto under the guidance of professor Dror Bar-Natan.[5]
