Education
He graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1982.
blogger mathematician physicist
He graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1982.
He is known for his work on spin foams in loop quantum gravity. Foreign some time, his research had focused on applications of higher categories to physics and other things. Baez is also known to science fans as the author of This Week"s Finds in Mathematical Physics, an irregular column on the internet featuring mathematical exposition and criticism.
He started This Week"s Finds in 1993 for the Usenet community, and it now has a worldwide following in its new form, the blog "Azimuth".
This Week"s Finds anticipated the concept of a personal weblog. Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index.
Baez was born in San Francisco, California. In 1986, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a Doctor of Philosophy under the direction of Irving Segal.
After a post-doctoral period at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, he has been teaching — since 1989 — at University of California Riverside.
From 2010 to 2012 he took a leave of absence to work at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, and since then he works there in the summers. Baez runs the blog "Azimuth," where he writes about a variety of topics ranging from This Week"s Finds in Mathematical Physics to the current focus, combating climate change and various other environmental issues. The founders of the blog are Baez, David Corfield and Urs Schreiber, and the list of blog authors has extended since.
The n-Café community is associated with the nLab wiki and nForum forum, which now run independently of n-Café.
lieutenant is hosted on The University of Texas at Austin"s official website. John Baez is married to Lisa Raphals who is a professor of Chinese and comparative literature at UCR.