John Baez
Also known as John C. Baez, John Carlos Baez
American mathematical physicist at UC Riverside; This Week's Finds and the Azimuth blog.
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- John Baez is an American mathematical physicist on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Riverside, from 1989.
- He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, higher categories in physics and applied category theory.
- From 1993 he wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics, an early web column that became the Azimuth blog, which also covers climate and the environment.
- He co-founded the n-Category Café and wrote the crackpot index.
Key facts
- Role
- Mathematics faculty, UC Riverside (from 1989)1
- Research
- Spin foams in loop quantum gravity; higher categories in physics; applied category theory1
- Writes
- This Week's Finds (from 1993); the Azimuth blog; co-founder of the n-Category Café1
- Awards
- Levi L. Conant Prize (2013, with John Huerta); Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2022)1
- Education
- AB, Princeton (1982); PhD, MIT (1986)1
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