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This article is about John C. Baez, the American mathematical physicist. For the John Baez video game programmer and creator of the video game Alien Hominid , see The Behemoth . John Carlos Baez (b. 1961) is an American Mathematical Physicist , well known in the field for his work on Spin Foam s in Loop Quantum Gravity . More recently, his research has focused on applications of Higher Categories to physics. Baez is no doubt best known to science fans in the UseNet community as the author of ''This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics'', an irregular column on the web featuring gossip, exposition and criticism. Baez started ''This Week's Finds'' in 1993, and it has a worldwide following. ''This Week's Finds'' anticipated the concept of a personal Weblog . Baez is also known on the World Wide Web as the author of an ironical Crackpot Index . Baez 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 . Since this can be verified at The Mathematics Genealogy Project , we have humorously added the following figure illustrating his ''mathematical family net'': In this figure, the Topology is a causal net rather than a simple Tree , possibly because Weierstrass 's doctorate was an honorary degree. Since John Baez is a fan of the work of Vladimir Nabokov , who is well known for his obscure references, we might also point out that Nikolai Bugaev was the father of the novelist Andrei Bely . Biologically speaking, the singer Joan Baez is a cousin of John Baez. Baez currently teaches at the University Of California, Riverside . EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES |
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