John C. Baez
American mathematician and mathematical physicist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1961 · age 65
John Carlos Baez is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory.
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Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index.