John C. Baez

John C. Baez

John Carlos Baez (born 1961) is an American mathematical physicist at the University of California, Riverside. He is known for his work on spin foams in loop quantum gravity. More recently, his research has focused on applications of higher categories to physics.

Baez is known to science fans as the author of "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics", an irregular column on the web featuring mathematical exposition and criticism. Baez started "This Week's Finds" in 1993 for the Usenet community, and it now has a worldwide following. "This Week's Finds" anticipated the concept of a personal weblog.Fact|date=August 2007 Baez is also known on the World Wide Web as the author of an ironic crackpot index.

Baez earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT in 1986, under the direction of Irving Segal. In one of his posts, Baez mentioned that he can trace his "mathematical genealogy" back to the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss; the Mathematics Genealogy Project lists over 35,000 fellow scientists with whom Baez shares this lineage. Baez's lineage also includes other mathematical luminaries such as Weierstrass and Riesz. See the link to the Mathematics Genealogy Project below for details.

Singer Joan Baez is his cousin,Fact|date=July 2008 and her father, physicist Albert Baez, is his uncle.Fact|date=July 2008

References

*cite web | title=John Carlos Baez | publisher=American Mathematical Society | work=The Mathematics Genealogy Project | url=http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=25152 | accessmonthday=August 13 | accessyear=2005
*cite book | author=Baez, John C. (ed.) | title=Knots and quantum gravity | location=Oxford | publisher=Clarendon Press | year=1994 | id=ISBN 0-19-853490-6
*cite book | author=Baez, John C.; Segal, & Muniain, Javier | title=Gauge fields, knots and gravity | location=Singapore | publisher=World Scientific | year=1994 | id=ISBN 981-02-2034-0
*cite book | author=Baez, John C.; Segal, Irving E.; and Zhou, Zhenfang | title=Introduction to algebraic and constructive quantum field theory | location=Princeton | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-691-08546-3

External links

* [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ Baez's home page]
* [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html This Week's Finds]
*MathGenealogy|id=25152


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • John Carlos Baez — (* 1961) ist ein US amerikanischer mathematischer Physiker und Professor an der University of California, Riverside. John Baez arbeitet unter anderem auf den Gebieten der Loop Quantengravitation und Kategorientheorie. Bekannt ist John Baez vor… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • John Baez — John Carlos Baez (* 1961) ist ein US amerikanischer mathematischer Physiker und Professor an der University of California, Riverside. John Baez arbeitet unter anderem auf den Gebieten der Loop Quantengravitation und Kategorientheorie. Bekannt ist …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • John Baez — John C. Baez John C. Baez (12 de junio de 1961) es un matemático estadounidense que trabaja en gravedad cuántica de bucles y las aplicaciones de la teoría de las categorías a la física. Nació en 1961. Tiene marcada presencia en internet, donde es …   Wikipedia Español

  • Baez — is a Spanish Basque surname meaning son of Basque Country also may refer to:*Joan Baez (b. 1941), American folk singer *John C. Baez (b. 1961), mathematical physicist, cousin of Joan Baez *Albert Baez (1912 2007), physicist, father of Joan Baez… …   Wikipedia

  • John Baez — John C. Baez es un matemático estadounidense que trabaja en gravedad cuántica de bucles y las aplicaciones de la teoría de las categorías a la física. Nació en 1961. Tiene marcada presencia en internet, donde es conocido por This Week s Finds in… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • John T. Graves — John Thomas Graves, Esq. (1806 1870) was an Irish jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which… …   Wikipedia

  • John Baez —  Ne doit pas être confondu avec Joan Baez. John Baez, photographié en août 2009 John Carlos Baez (né en 1961 à San Francisco) est un physicien mathématicien américain de l …   Wikipédia en Français

  • John Mellencamp — in 2007 Background information Also known as Johnny Cougar John Cougar John Cougar Mellencamp …   Wikipedia

  • Baez — oder Báez ist der Name von Albert Baez (1912–2007) US amerikanischer Physiker mit mexikanischen Wurzeln, Vater von Joan Baez Buenaventura Báez (1812−1884), dominikanischer Politiker Joan Baez (* 1941), US amerikanische Folk Sängerin mit… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Báez — ist ein spanischer Familienname[1]. Außerhalb des spanischen Sprachraums tritt vereinzelt die anglisierte Form Baez auf. Herkunft und Bedeutung Zur Etymologie des Namens Báez existieren unterschiedliche Angaben. So soll der Name z. B. von einem… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”