John C. Baez

Quick Facts

Full Name	John C. Baez
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1961(1961-06-12)
Age	63
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Gemini

John C. Baez Biography

John C. Baez is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on June 12, 1961 in San Francisco, California, United States. Mathematical physicist renowned for his work on loop quantum gravity. He has taught Mathematics for the University of California, Riverside. Also, he was the creator of the well-known mathematics blogs Azimuth and n-Category Café.

His cousin is a singer also known as His cousin is singer and activist Joan Baez..

Baez was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in

1982. 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 UC Riverside. From 2010 to 2012, he took a leave of absence to work at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and has since worked there in the summers.

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 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.

He got married Comparative Literature and Chinese professor Lisa Raphals. His grandfather is the physicist Albert Baez.

John C. Baez Net Worth

John C. Baez is one of the richest Mathematician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John C. Baez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The place he was raised is San Francisco, California and graduated at Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. He started his career in teaching in 1989 at UC Riverside in 1989.

He invented the humorous “crackpot index,” which gives a numerical rating to scientific claims that are made by people with questionable credibility.

John Carlos Baez (/ˈ b aɪ ɛ z / ; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. He is known for his work on spin foams in loop quantum gravity. For some time, his research had focused on applications of higher categories to physics and other things.

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Mathematician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John C. Baez celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.

Is John Baez related to Joan Baez?

Family. His uncle Albert Baez was a physicist, a co-inventor of the X-ray microscope, and father of singer and progressive activist Joan Baez. Albert interested him in physics as a child. John Baez is married to Lisa Raphals who is a professor of Chinese and comparative literature at UCR.

How can you tell a crackpot?

1. A -5 point starting credit.
2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.
4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.

How old is Bob Dillon?

81 years (May 24, 1941)

What is Joan Baez ethnicity?

While growing up, Baez was subjected to racial slurs and discrimination because of her Mexican heritage. Consequently, she became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career.