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John Carlos Baez (; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR)〔(UC Riverside, Department of Mathematics )〕 in Riverside, California. He is known for his work on spin foams in loop quantum gravity.〔Baez, John C. (1998), "Spin foam models", ''Class. & Quantum Gravity'' 15, 1827–1858〕〔(Top Cited Articles of All Time (2004 edition) in gr-qc )〕 For some time, his research had focused on applications of higher categories to physics and other things.〔(John Baez Diary - January 2010 ), 2010-01-01〕 Baez is also known to science fans as the author of ''This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics'',〔(This Week's Finds )〕 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.〔http://www.neverendingbooks.org/the-unbearable-lightness-of-math-blogging Lieven LeBruyn, The unbearable lightness of math-blogging, 23 August, 2007 〕 Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index. ==Early life and education== 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 since then he works there in the summers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John C. Baez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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