John C. Baez

Physicist + Scientist + Writer

Male

Born Jun 12, 1961

Age 51

Hometown San Francisco

Field Physics

Nationality United States

Alma Mater Princeton Univers...

John Carlos Baez 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. More recently, his research… Read More

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John C. Baez

Age 51

parents

Albert Baez
Father, d.2007

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Evolution, Entropy, And Information
Discover Magazine - Jun 08, 2012

Okay, sticking to my desire to blog rather than just tweet (we’ll see how it goes): here’s a great post by John Baez with the forbidding title “Information Geometry, Part 11.” But if you can stomach a few equations, there’s a great idea being explicated, which connects evolutionary biology to entropy and information theory. There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”...
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Il Sistema Degli Ottetti Nella Teoria Delle Stringhe Blogosfere (Blog)
Google News - May 13, 2011

In un articolo apparso su Scientific American di Maggio, John Baez e John Huerta presentano un sistema numerico altrettanto importante per lo studio della geometria e della fisica: il sistema degli ottetti o ottonioni. Dimenticati sin già dalla loro
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De Ce Sunt 5, 8 şi 24 Cele Mai Ciudate Numere Din Univers Video Gândul
Google News - May 06, 2011

În acest video, matematicianul John Baez vorbeşte despre octonioni, un sistem numeric cu "opt dimensiuni", descoperit în secolul al XIX-lea, dar căruia nu i sa acordat prea mare importanţă până în prezent. În acest video, matematicianul John Baez
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Border News Translations: Power Outage; Quality Schools; Drought San Diego Reader (Blog)
Google News - May 03, 2011

“This is a sad reality and they know it,” said John Baez Rodríguez, representative of the CNOP in Tamaulipas. He noted that the producers in the northern part of Tamaulipas, have not lost faith and believe that some rainfall could completely change the
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1961 Birth Born on June 12, 1961.

TWENTIES

1982 21 Years Old He graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1982.

1986 25 Years Old In 1986, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a Doctor of Philosophy under the direction of Irving Segal. … Read More

THIRTIES

1993 32 Years Old 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 worldwide following in its new form, the blog "Azimuth". … Read More

FORTIES

2010 49 Years Old … On January 14, 2010 Baez announced that he is leaving categorical mathematical physics. … Read More

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