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where he graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1982; his senior thesis was titled "Recursivity in quantum mechanics", under the supervision of
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This article is about the American mathematical physicist. For the video-game programmer and creator of the video game "Alien Hominid", see
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for his expository paper with John Huerta, "The algebra of grand unified theories". He was named a Fellow of the
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and its applications, as well as its philosophical repercussions. The founders of the blog are Baez,
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February 17, 2007 – Lisa Raphals and I got married today! (Diary – February 2007)
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Baez, John C.; Baratin, Aristide; Laurent, Freidel; Derek, Wise (2012).
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Baez, John C.; Hoffnung, Alexander E.; Rogers, Christopher L. (2010).
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An Introduction to Algebraic and Constructive Quantum Field Theory
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community, and it now has a following in its new form, the blog
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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Baez, John C.; Segal, Irving E.; Zhou, Zhengfang (1992).
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in Singapore and has since worked there in the summers.
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Top Cited Articles of All Time (2004 edition) in gr-qc
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Additionally, Baez is known on the 229:; born June 12, 1961) is an American 89:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1573:21st-century American mathematicians 1568:20th-century American mathematicians 1288: 968: 845: 789:Baez, John C.; Huerta, John (2014). 645:Baez, John C.; Huerta, John (2010). 587: 515:Baez, John C.; Dolan, James (1995). 333:. He also worked on applications of 159:Conformally Invariant Quantum Fields 1511:at UCR's official website (ucr.edu) 239:University of California, Riverside 146:University of California, Riverside 13: 1388:"2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS" 492:who is a professor of Chinese and 14: 1684: 1502: 1480:"Lisa Raphals (UCR faculty page)" 1350: 459:The University of Texas at Austin 1623:Loop quantum gravity researchers 1578:21st-century American physicists 1292:Recursivity in quantum mechanics 202: 1472: 1461: 1440: 1426: 1413: 1402: 1390:. 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The Behemoth

Princeton University
AB
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD
Lisa Raphals
Levi L. Conant Prize
Mathematics
mathematical physics
University of California, Riverside
Thesis
Conformally Invariant Quantum Fields
Doctoral advisor
Irving Segal
Alissa Crans
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mathematical physicist
mathematics
University of California, Riverside
Riverside
spin foams
loop quantum gravity
higher categories
applied category theory
World Wide Web
crackpot index
Princeton University
John P. Burgess
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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