John C. Baez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John C. Baez

American mathematician and mathematical physicist

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1961

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Profession: physicist, mathematician, blogger, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

John Carlos Baez (; 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.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.